News Release from Pete Wishart MP
Attn: News Desk For immediate release: 27 October 2022
WISHART TO RAISE PERTHSHIRE FARMER’S HARVEST ORDEAL IN PARLIAMENT
Pete Wishart, MP for Perth and Perthshire, and SNP Shadow Westminster Spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), is to raise a local farmer’s harvest ordeal in parliament later today, [Thursday]....
News Release from Pete Wishart MP
Attn: News Desk For immediate release: 27 October 2022
WISHART TO RAISE PERTHSHIRE FARMER’S HARVEST ORDEAL IN PARLIAMENT
Pete Wishart, MP for Perth and Perthshire, and SNP Shadow Westminster Spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), is to raise a local farmer’s harvest ordeal in parliament later today, [Thursday]....
News Release from Pete Wishart MP
Attn: News Desk For immediate release: 27 October 2022
WISHART TO RAISE PERTHSHIRE FARMER’S HARVEST ORDEAL IN PARLIAMENT
Pete Wishart, MP for Perth and Perthshire, and SNP Shadow Westminster Spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), is to raise a local farmer’s harvest ordeal in parliament later today, [Thursday]....
News Release from Pete Wishart MP
Attn: News Desk For immediate release: 27 October 2022
Wishart to raise local farmer’s harvest ordeal in parliament amid industry decline
Pete Wishart, MP for Perth and Perthshire, and Shadow Westminster Spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), is to raise local farmer’s harvest ordeal in parliament later today....
Wednesday 26 January 2022 - For Immediate Release
MPs URGE CHANCELLOR TO AMEND POLICY THREATENING
PLOUGHING MATCHES AND CHARITY TRACTOR ROAD-RUNS
Pete Wishart, MP for Perth and North Perthshire - with the support of John Nicolson, MP for Ochil and South Perthshire - has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer asking him to row back on a threat from HMRC which puts at...
Farmers in Perthshire have been “badly let down” by the Tories and food producers are suffering from ongoing Brexit uncertainty, SNP MP Pete Wishart has said.
Pete Wishart said that the failure of the UK government to pass on money from the EU owed to Scotland underlined the danger of a Tory power-grab after Brexit.
Scottish farmers receive £580 million annually...
Here is a copy of my contributions in Mays Blair Hub magazine.
I was pleased to see the first of the Blairgowrie berries hitting the shelves last month. Perthshire soft fruit is renowned across the country and I am always keen to do what I can to support local growers.
Whilst it is great to see the first of this year’s...
Perth and North Perthshire MP, Pete Wishart, has blasted the handling of the pilot scheme for farmers to access seasonal workers as ‘woefully inadequate’. This comes as the former farming minister has used urged the Conservative Government to extend the current pilot scheme.
Former farming minister, George Eustice MP, has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling for his own...