25.08.2003 |

Blair forced to scale back his plan to introduce GM farming

Tony Blair is drastically scaling down his plans to introduce GM farming in Britain in the wake of the Hutton inquiry, the Independent on Sunday writes.Senior officials at the centre of the issue concede that the Prime Minister has accepted that it would be politically 'too risky' to force through widespread commercial planting of GM crops in the teeth of public opposition.</p><p><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=436640&host=3&dir=58" target="blank">The Independent on Sunday</a>: