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7 quotes by Owen Paterson

Owen William Paterson (born 24 June 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012 until 2014 and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Shropshire since 1997. He was first appointed to the Shadow Cabinet of David Cameron in 2007 as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Upon the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010 he was appointed to...
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

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The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all... →

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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

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We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy... →

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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.

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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask... →

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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a... →

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