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my guest today is minette batters, she farms right here, shes also president of the national farmers union. as a society, are we asking our farmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure to be on yourfarm and the sun is shining, and in some ways you would think the sun would be shining on farmers. food prices are spiralling higher, you would think that would be good news forfarmers, is it? its quite extraordinary. i dont ...

Themselves to blame? brexit, i dont think farmers were any different to anybody else, families across the country were divided, farmers were divided. i actually felt we should remain and i took a public position on it. many didnt so they were divided on whether they wanted to remain in the eu or leave. ultimately, we chose to leave and i personally am enormously grateful we are in a democratic society, and we voted to leave and we have left. did the government lie to farmers about what the impac...

You surprised to receive this letter three days ago? >> i think at some level he must know that he did lose the election because his advisers, his lawyers told him that he lost the election. in fact, books are coming out that told him where the polling was coming into the election. but people use elections and this narrative to really disrupt and destroy confidence in the election process. like you said, weve done three counts on this, the initial count, 100% hand recount, and then did a final s...