Former environment secretary urges successor not to drop nature-friendly farming scheme

George Eustice warns against scrapping post-Brexit subsidies aimed at improving biodiversity and meeting climate targets

A former environment secretary has urged the UK government not to drop its nature recovery farming schemes, as the Guardian can reveal the more ambitious parts of the post-EU subsidy programme are set to be dropped.

George Eustice made the intervention, telling the Guardian that farmers are keen to be signed up to schemes in which they improve biodiversity, and that his replacement, Ranil Jayawardena, should not scrap them.

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