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Michael Gove - Taking back control of farming subsidies

Farm subsidies will have to be earned rather than just handed out in future, the Environment Secretary Michael Gove has said today in a speech at the World Wildlife Fund. The Former Education Secretary, who tried to have climate change removed from the school syllabus, pledged to remove microbeads from beauty products and made concessions on post-brexit immigration policy for seasonal farm workers.