FARMING is an issue close to my heart and is an area which deserves far more attention than it gets.

The Prime Minister has used the Tory conference to downplay the societal and economic impact already being felt around the UK by leaving the European Union.

It has been another gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as a senior minister accused the EU of seeking “petty revenge” – and then hinted that the government might ban imports of European mineral water and seed potatoes.