{"id":134305,"date":"2020-03-01T01:21:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/01\/treasury-adviser-farming-and-fisheries-are-not-important\/"},"modified":"2020-03-01T01:21:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:21:42","slug":"treasury-adviser-farming-and-fisheries-are-not-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=134305","title":{"rendered":"Treasury adviser: farming and fisheries are not important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Leunig, who advises Rishi Sunak, has suggested ministers could look to be like SingaporeOne of the most senior government advisers has said the UK does not need its farming or fishing industries, according to reports.In comments seen by the Mail on Sunday, Dr Tim Leunig is understood to have said the food sector was \u201cnot critically important\u201d to the country\u2019s economy \u2013 and that agriculture and fisheries \u201ccertainly isn\u2019t\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/mar\/01\/treasury-adviser-farming-and-fisheries-are-not-important\" target=\"_blank\">Treasury adviser: farming and fisheries are not important<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Leunig, who advises Rishi Sunak, has suggested ministers could look to be like SingaporeOne of the most senior government advisers has said the UK does not need its farming or fishing industries, according to reports.In comments seen by the Mail on Sunday, Dr Tim Leunig is understood to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}