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Tom Tugendhat - Conservative Party leadership candidate: "The agricultural industry is the glue that binds our rural areas together"

Tonbridge MP Tom Tugendhat is one of five candidates in the running to be the next Conservative Party leader

Chris Brayford
clock 鈥� 3 min read
Mr Tugendhat told the Conservative Rural Forum: "Farmers are the custodians of our countryside and the agricultural industry is the glue that binds our rural areas together."
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Mr Tugendhat told the Conservative Rural Forum: "Farmers are the custodians of our countryside and the agricultural industry is the glue that binds our rural areas together."

Make no mistake about it, food production and food security is an absolute priority for me. Farmers are the custodians of our countryside and the agricultural industry is the glue that binds our rural...

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