Ewing – Tories brazenly breaking their Brexit promise to farmers
By Fergus Ewing, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Tourism " 'The UK government will continue to give farmers and the environment as much support - or perhaps even more - as they get now' – That was the bold claim of George Eustice one month before the EU referendum in 2016. How hollow it seems now. The Tories have instead chosen to cut funding for rural support – between 2021 and 2025, Scotland will lose out on some £170 million. We face an immediate loss of the remainder of our 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy budget – £33 million already committed for o...