All 1 Iain Stewart contributions to the Agriculture Bill 2017-19

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Tue 20th Nov 2018
Agriculture Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
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Committee Debate: 14th sitting: House of Commons

Agriculture Bill (Fourteenth sitting)

Iain Stewart Excerpts
Committee Debate: 14th sitting: House of Commons
Tuesday 20th November 2018

(5 years, 3 months ago)

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It is always a mistake to lead with your chin, as they say. We will pass on from that very quickly.

The new clause covers something that, as far as I know, most MPs want to do. Hon. Members may say that it is somewhat incongruous to bring this forward with this Bill, but given that Agriculture Bills come round about every 50 years, we will not necessarily be around to see this carried through.

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Some of us might be very old if we were around in 50 years. I hope this is treated seriously.