The title of this paper forces me to begin with a consideration and definition of U.K. agricultural policy and further, inasmuch as any farm programme must be a long-term affair, I am more or less compelled to discuss whether the present U.K. policy is permanent or temporary. This requires some examination of that policy in the past, and of the way in which it developed. It may then be possible to make an intelligent guesstimate of the future.
