Truss-favoured thinktank attacks ‘massive transfer of wealth’ to landowners

Matthew Lesh, head of public policy at the IEA, said the body would advise the government that if farmers were to be paid taxpayer money, it should be for public goods, such as environmental protections. He said the current scheme, which pays farmers for each acre of land they use, “is a massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to landowners.

Farmers should be welcoming the idea of being paid for public goods, he suggested, as it would be hard to justify paying them to produce food when consumers are already buying food from them at the supermarket.

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