May suggests UK's richest aristocrat landowners will get farming subsidies funded by British taxpayer after Brexit

[Tony Gosling]

May suggests UK's richest aristocrat landowners 
will get farming subsidies funded by British taxpayer after Brexit
NO!   THRICE NO!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-uk-brexit-farming-subsidies-eu-duke-westminster-a7545601.html
PM says new agricultural policy will include 'all 
parts of the UK' - including its wealthiest landed gentry
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<http://www.independent.co.uk/author/adam-withnall>Adam 
Withnall 
<https://twitter.com/adamwithnall>@adamwithnall Wednesday 25 January 2017
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The seventh Duke of Westminster is the richest 
person in the world under the age of 30, and gets 
£400,000 a year in EU subsidies PA

British aristocrats who rank among some of the 
country’s richest landowners could be set to 
receive hundreds of thousands of pounds a year 
from UK taxpayers after Brexit, Theresa May has indicated.

Members of the landed gentry such as Prince 
George’s godfather, the Duke of Westminster, are 
currently given vast farming subsidies as part of 
the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.

They are set to be stripped of those subsidies 
when Britain leaves the bloc, and the Prime 
Minister suggested the aristocrats would not be 
left out when the UK comes up with its own agricultural rules.

Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for Rhondda, asked at 
Prime Minister’s Questions: “When she introduces 
a UK agricultural policy, because we are out of 
the common agricultural policy, will the Duke of 
Westminster still receive £407,000 a year? Will 
the Duke of Northumberland still receive £475,000 a year?

“And will the Earl of Iveagh still receive 
915,000 a year from the British taxpayer?”

Ms May replied: “One of the tasks that we will 
have when we leave the European Union is to 
decide what support is provided to agriculture as 
a result of being outside the common agricultural policy.

“I can assure him we are taking the interests of 
all parts of the United Kingdom into account when 
we look at that system and what it should be in the future.”

Hugh Grosvenor, also known as the Duke of 
Westminster, is estimated to be worth more than 
£9 billion – inherited when his father died in 
August 2016. At just 25 years old, he is reported 
to be the richest person in the world under the age of 30.

Ralph Percy, the Duke of Northumberland, was a 
hereditary peer in the House of Lords until their 
right to sit in the house was ended in the House 
of Lords Act of 1999. He lives in Alnwick Castle, 
used as a backdrop to Hogwarts in the Harry 
Potter films, and owns a 50,000 hectare estate.

And Edward Guinness, the Earl of Iveagh, is a 
member of the Guinness family – still owners of 
the beer of that name. He lives on the 
22,500-acre Elveden Estate in Suffolk, and sold 
the family’s Irish ancestral estate to the Irish 
Government in 1999 for almost €30 million (£25.6 million).
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