00:00We've already talked about Ukraine, Mr Speaker.
00:04It was Ukraine and Covid that drove up inflation.
00:08This government is doing it to the British people.
00:10High tax, high inflation, low growth, low reform.
00:15There's a word for that, Mr Speaker, it's starmarism.
00:20Yesterday, like many honourable members on this side of the House,
00:24I spoke to farmers from across the United Kingdom.
00:28Some of them families who've farmed their land for centuries.
00:31Elderly men in tears, children worried about their parents,
00:37all of them worried that their way of life is about to be destroyed.
00:41What would the Right Honourable Lady like to say to them?
00:45Well first of all, Mr Speaker, we are absolutely committed to our British farmers.
00:52And that's why we've committed £5 billion to the farming budget over the next two years.
01:04That's the largest ever amount for sustainable food production in the UK.
01:10And it's alongside £60 million, Mr Speaker, to support those affected by extreme wet weather
01:16and over £200 million to tackle disease outbreaks.
01:20His party couldn't even get the money out the door for farmers,
01:24failing to spend over £300 million on farming budgets.
01:28The farmers know they ruined it for them and that's why we're in government and they're not.
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