‘This Week’ correspondent Llew Gardner travels to rural Norfolk and speaks some of the poorest workers in the land. On average the UK’s farm workers work a 40 hour week for no more than 15 pounds a week compared to the average weekly wage of 25 pounds a week of their industrial contemporaries. Poor pay and conditions has led to 25000 farm workers leaving the land a year. We ask. Is this sustainable?

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