IT may just have been a slip of the tongue – or it may by symptomatic of a complete ignorance of the realities of farming – but, Andrea Leadsom, our farming secretary at Defra, took to the Twitter social media site last week and made a bit of a twit of herself.

She tweeted: “From milk and butter to eggs and cheese, our dairy industry is a real export success story”.

Maybe, of course, she was referring to the undoubted export success story of selling fertilised eggs (embryos) from top genetic dairy cows on the world market, though somehow I doubt it!!