“Let me be clear, if today was the real vote, I would vote against the Government’s plans. I’m no rebel. I’m a moderate – but during the election, I read what I thought were assurances from my party that we had no plans to introduce changes to APR.
“On this basis, I reassured farmers in my constituency that we would not. Now I simply am not prepared to break my word.”
Good on him, actually sticking to that.