Natural England and the Environment Agency (EA) should be stripped of their responsibilities, two former Cabinet ministers and grassroots Tory activists have urged.
The Conservative Rural Forum (CRF), a pressure group that relaunched last year to champion the countryside, will call for the quangos to be brought back into the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) after criticism of their performance.
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