Guardian Embarrassed by Farming Subsidy Cuts Fail

Earlier this month panicked reporting from The Guardian’s environment desk predicted that the “nature-friendly farming budget is set to be slashed” at the Spending Review. The Guardian must be well sourced on eco-matters – unless…

A half-billion cut was reported to be on the way:

“However, the entire farming payments budget including the EU acreage payments which were being phased out was £2.4bn, so looks like £400m a year cut.”