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Alicia Kearns - Conservative candidate on the General Election: "If we do not treat food security as a national security issue, we will let the people of our great nation down"

Ms Kearns, standing for election as a candidate for Rutland, Stamford, and the South Kesteven and Harborough Villages, told ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian readers protecting the rural way of life and standing up for farmers mattered ahead of the General Election

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"The word rural does not feature even once in Labour's manifesto, and they spare only 87 words on farming." (Alicia Kearns)
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"The word rural does not feature even once in Labour's manifesto, and they spare only 87 words on farming." (Alicia Kearns)

Sadly, farming is too often treated as a parochial issue, the preserve of rural communities, leaving it absent from the national conversation at election time. This threatens our collective security....

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