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Keir Starmer with Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley and Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, at the COP29 climate summit.: “If farmers want to go on the streets, we can do to them what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners.”McTernan replied: “It’s an industry we could do without.”
Christys then said: “OK, alright. It’s just got weird. So you would do to farmers what Margaret Thatcher did to miners, which was ...”He added: “If people are so upset that they want to go on the streets and spread slurry on them ... we don’t need the small farmers.”“We can do to the farmers what Thatcher did to the miners. It’s an industry we could do without. We don’t need small farmers.
“I will do everything I can to support them because I think it’s essential that they not only prosper but prosper well into the future. So I totally disagree with those comments.”
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