UK ‘consistently waters down’ reforms of EU farming subsidies

European commission says government chooses not to apply CAP payment ceiling to large landowners in EnglandThe UK government could have stopped wealthy landowners including aristocrats and a Saudi racehorse owner receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds from the EU’s common agricultural policy, the European commission has said.
An investigation of the top 100 recipients of CAP subsidies in the UK last year by the environmental campaign group Greenpeace revealed that at least one in five w