Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales
@CAevs
Director for Wales at the Countryside Alliance.
Thanks @LibDemDavid for popping by today and re-iterating your support for the undergrounding of electricity cables and for raising concerns about other issues linked to the anti-pylon campaign. Thanks for all your work on this.

📺WATCH: Record number of farms shut in wake of inheritance tax raid. @mometfisher joins @iancollinsuk on @TalkTV to urge government to change direction asap➡️ youtu.be/5yzFZKe2bQg?si…
Record number of farms shut in wake of Labour’s inheritance tax raid. Thank you for having me @iancollinsuk ⬇️
A record number of farms were forced to close for good this year after Rachel Reeves’s tax raid made the future of thousands of rural businesses unviable. We are walking into a food security disaster. And it’s totally unnecessary ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
“We need to get serious about the importance of protecting native species and effective wildlife management”. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2…
“There is a deep and growing divide between rural communities and Westminster, largely due to the architects of policy that seek to do things to the countryside, rather than for it.”⬇️ express.co.uk/news/politics/…
Delighted to welcome Neil James and family of N S James Butchers, Raglan a National Countryside Alliance Award winner!!!

Diolch Llyr am dod I weld ni heddiw i trafod materion sy’n bwysig i’r aelodau 👍

Thank you @AltafHussainSWW for coming to see us today and for chatting to our chef about wonderful game! Thank you for re-iterating your support - much appreciated!

Thank you to @MarkIsherwoodMS for coming along to the stand today, Mark is a fantastic ambassador for the Curlew at the Senedd 👏

Diolch I @AnnBremenda am galw draw I weld ni ddoe, dal yn trafod y busnes peilonnau ac efaith bydd rhian yn cael ar y tirwedd ar cymunedau. Thanks Ann for another deep “rural conversation” 👍

Delighted to have the Golden Valley here on the stand today, pop by and say hello!

As ever a good conversation with @JamesEvansMS and thanks for taking on board the concerns of your constituents on the stand, one happier farmer going home yesterday!

Great to see you and the team yesterday @JoelJamesSWC thanks for the support and I hope you enjoyed the wild welsh pheasant!

Thanks to @KemiBadenoch for taking the time to visit us yesterday to meet our member and supporters, and our National Award winners @CoterieLeather and @wildwelshmeat showing her support for Welsh rural businesses 👌

Great to have @DarrenMillarMS @PaulDaviesPembs and @SKurtzCWSP calling by for a chat, always keen to hear about our campaigns and particularly interested in our National Award winner @CoterieLeather - what a story, sustainable business at its finest.



We are ready!!! @royalwelshshow 2025!!!!
Farmers fear Labour is rolling back on its popular manifesto pledge to get the public sector to buy British. Not a single reference to procurement in the food strategy…⬇️@NoFarmsNoFoods
‘For many in the countryside, there is a sense their world is being sacrificed to bail out SW1’ Labour’s growing problem in the countryside, a place they had made significant gains at the last GE⬇️
"One Buckinghamshire farming leader told me Keir Starmer would be brave to show his face in any rural pub in Britain." 🖊️ @felixpope_ newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
The parliamentary grouse shooting debate represented a welcome example of logic and common sense, writes Johnnie Furse thecritic.co.uk/chris-packham-…