THE POST-BREXIT LANDSCAPE
1. Agriculture
With Brexit, the UK will leave the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This provided income support to farmers (CAP payments represent around 55% of farm incomes) but was widely criticised for encouraging overproduction.
The Agriculture Bill aims to set out the future for UK farming. In place of CAP, under which subsidies are based mainly on the amount of land farmed, the Government has talked about “public money for public good”. Direct subsidy
