David Handley

I’M sleeping a lot better these nights knowing that one of the most worrying current issues for British farmers is being taken care of and that the matter is in the safest of hands.

Yes, friends: none other than that redoubtable duo Liz Truss and Minette Batters have now got a firm handle on the vexed matter of the import of chlorinated chicken and hormone-enhanced beef from the US and have both declared that it will not be allowed.

So there we are. We have their word for it. Nothing more to worry about. Uncle Donald’s delicacies will not be elbowing the superior British products off the supermarket shelves in the short, medium or long term.

The matter is now under the clos