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EXCLUSIVE - George Dunn: "Clearly there will be a lot of rot he has to deal with"

Tenant Farmers Association chief executive George Dunn writes on the appointment of Alan Laidlaw as England's first Tenant Farming Commissioner

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TFA chief executive George Dunn said: "In the early days of his appointment, the Commissioner will need to build credibility within the sector and the organisations which represent tenants, landlords, and agents."
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TFA chief executive George Dunn said: "In the early days of his appointment, the Commissioner will need to build credibility within the sector and the organisations which represent tenants, landlords, and agents."

It is a mark of the agricultural tenanted sector's importance in England that it has been granted a new Commissioner in the form of Alan Laidlaw, formally of the Crown Estate and the Royal Highland and...

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