Following Wednesday’s Autumn Budget, the NFU has had 1,000s of mentions across national, regional, and trade print, as well as online and broadcast coverage.
As well as hearing from our members and officeholder teams on NFUonline, our NFUapp and our social media channels, you can catch up with them in other coverage here.
On screen and radio
NFU President Tom Bradshaw
- LBC’s Tonight with Andrew Marr (33:14)
- Channel 4 News (3:33)
- Sky News with Gareth Barlow
- BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today
- BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast (1:27:09)
- LBC News with Martin Stanford
- Times Radio with Hugo Rifkind
- Channel 5 News
- GB News
- Local BBC radio stations, including Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Essex, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Northampton, Hereford & Worcester, Shropshire and Stoke.
NFU Deputy President David Exwood
- The Farmers Guardian webinar covering the Budget.
NFU Vice President Rachel Hallos
- Sky News’ Tonight with Anna Jones.
Other interviews included:
- NFU Dairy Board chair Paul Tompkins on Sky News
- NFU Midlands regional board chair Jane Bassett on Talk TV (34:20)
- NFU North regional director David Hall on BBC Breakfast.
NFU Cymru President Aled Jones
- S4C Newyddion
- BBC Radio Cymru Bwletin Amaeth (2:30)
- BBC Radio Cymru Post Prynhawn (50:24)
NFU Deputy President Abi Reader
- BBC Wales’ Evening and Late News
- BBC Radio 5 Live Wake up to Money (44:44)
- BBC Radio Wales Breakfast (17:10)
- BBC News Channel’s The Context
- ITV News
The NFU was also mentioned on BBC News at 10 and BBC 2’s Newsnight, plus bulletins across BBC Radio 2, 4, 5 Live and 6 Music.
In print and online
The front page of The Sun and The Times’ live Budget coverage covers our reaction, as does The Times’ Leading Article. The Guardian has also posted an explainer on its website.
Tom is quoted in coverage across all national media, including Sky News, I News, Independent, Evening Standard, BBC, The Spectator, multiple articles in The Telegraph, multiple articles in The Times, multiple articles in the Daily Express, GB News and the Daily Mail.
NFU crops board appointee Will Oliver spoke to The Guardian as Student & Young Farmer Ambassador Naomi Williams-Roberts spoke to the Daily Express. Jane Bassett was also featured in the Daily Express alongside Lincolnshire member Henry Ward.
Farmers Weekly and Farmers Guardian report on the NFU’s plans for a mass lobby in London later this month to highlight farmers’ dissatisfaction about inheritance tax changes. This was also highlighted in The Telegraph’s live Budget coverage.