EU citizens ‘willing to support farms’
Mr Sutherland, who was delivering the Michael Dillon Memorial Lecture, said people in many, if not all, EU states do not resent what is spent on farmers.
"If there is a price to be paid for maintaining rural communities, maintaining the countryside and having good local products in the shops, then taxpayers and consumers generally appear ready to pay a price so long as there are also cheaper options available in the shops for the less well off."
