Ross Clark on how the new CAP rules make it profitable for city folk to buy farms and use them as homes – with big gardens
If the words ‘Get orff my land’ are delivered in future less in yokel tones than in the mid-Atlantic accent of the trading floor, don’t be surprised.

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