Daniel Payne

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In the months leading up to an election last year, I joined the candidate I was working for, Tim Farron, on a farm visit. A National Farmer’s Union rep had arranged for five local farmers to meet their Member of Parliament (MP) in the front room of a farmhouse in Ormside, Cumbria. It felt like a council of elders from days of old. These men were used to living and working largely on their own, far from the nearest town, far from easy convenience.