Blog - Richard Corbett

UK Labour MEP from 1996 to 2009

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

So, what is the line of the chameleon Cameron Conservatives on reform of the CAP? I was interested to read the piece by James Paice, their Shadow Agricultural Minister in the Parliament on it which reads as follows:

"Does the CAP need to be scrapped? No, but further reform is necessary to reduce the overall cost of the CAP to the taxpayer, help producers in the developing world and maintain environmental payments to farmers."

In other words, they support the direction that the CAP has been moving over the last few years and can only be pleased with the recent reforms. But you wouldn't guess that from the Eurosceptic rhetoric that surrounds most Tory pronouncements on the subject!

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