The first female president of the NFU has steered the country’s farmers through Brexit, the pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine. Now she’s stepping down, but not before taking aim at Rishi Sunak and all the other politicians she believes have damaged farming and destroyed lives
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: While Labour has traditionally been seen as the party of cities, the Conservatives were thought to understand the concerns of the shires. No longer, it seems.
Commitment to the agriculture sector and farmers, display of statesmanship cutting across political divides and honouring the contributions of southern India to nation-building are the major themes reflected in the awarding of the prestigious Bharat Ratna to former prime ministers Chaudhary Charan Singh and Narasimha Rao and architect of the Green Revolution MS Swaminathan.