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"The biggest question for this Labour Government is quite simply: What do you want?"
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"The biggest question for this Labour Government is quite simply: What do you want?"

The new Labour Government must facilitate a grown-up conversation on food production and rural communities after winning the General Election. After Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party secured a majority...

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