The Guardian reports a letter from 36 MPs that urges Theresa May to redirect billions of pounds of post-Brexit subsidies towards environmental and public services.

Dozens of Conservative MPs have written to the Prime Minister, Theresa May, urging her to shift billions of pounds of post-Brexit farm subsidies towards protecting and improving the environment.

The 36 MPs, including former environment ministers, also urge May to maintain the strong protection for wildlife and water provided by EU directives. During the EU referendum campaign, farming Minister George Eustice campaigned for the leave camp and said the directives were “spirit-crushing” and “would go”.

UK farmers receive about £3bn a year via the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP), much of it for simply owning land. The Tory MPs want May to “take advantage of the repatriation of CAP by shifting subsidies in favour of paying farmers for delivering services for the environment and public good”.

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