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Tuesday, 01 November 2022 16:25

Revolving door politics

Written by  Milking It

OPINION: The UK's revolving door politics of recent weeks means the country's farmers are getting used to their fifth Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in five years.

The role, equivalent to that NZ's Agriculture Minister, had seen a new face every time 10 Downing Street has had a new resident. And there have been three in just three months.

Since 2017, Michael Gove, Theresa Villers, George Eustice, Ranil Jayawardena and Therese Coffey have held the Secretary's role. Coffey was appointed to the role last week by new PM Rishi Sunak.

Jayawardena holds the record for the shortest tenure - one month and 19 days - under Liz Truss' prime ministership.

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