Andrea Leadsom Pic Credit: BBC
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It is probably an extreme irony that Theresa May has dumped leadership rival Andrea Leadsom right in the slurry with the job at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs(Defra)
For the Eurosceptic Brexiteer is going to have to eat a lot of humble pie and hand over more money than any other minister to the European Commission long after the United Kingdom has quit the European Union.
Her appointment coincided with the latest accounts from Defra with a caustic comment from the National Audit Office once again qualifying them because of their incompetence in handing out £2.3 billion of subsidies to British farmers.
But this rap on the knuckles means more than that – as it sets up the UK to have to pay a fortune in fines to the EU. I have written about it in Tribune here
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