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Agricultural Policy

I did not expect to have an ally across the way. I would be more diplomatic. I would not tell the EU Commission to get stuffed—heaven forfend—but there is a valid exercise to be performed by the Minister: not simply to look at legal advice, but to ask seriously, ““What is the risk of infraction, when the EU commissioner has already started instigating proceedings for infraction against those countries that are not complying with a ban, when we are?”” Good grief, I should have thought the risk was very low. The only thing I cannot join the hon. Member for Monmouth in is in giving an absolute stomping to the Commission, but there are times when the risk is such that it is acceptable to say, ““We are doing what the commissioner wants on this occasion. Let’s argue and put a ban in place.””