New Scottish policy implementation board 'will achieve nothing'

Ex-NFU Scotland president and co-chair of the Suckler Beef Climate Group Jim Walker has warned the new Agriculture Reform Implementation Oversight Board is a ‘figleaf’ and will ‘achieve absolutely nothing’.

Abi Kay
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New Scottish policy implementation board 'will achieve nothing'

Ex-NFU Scotland president and co-chair of the Suckler Beef Climate Group Jim Walker has warned the new Agriculture Reform Implementation Oversight Board is a ‘figleaf' and will ‘achieve absolutely nothing'....

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