Prime Minister travels to Derbyshire today to visit rural farm in Peak District
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The Prime Minister is speaking to farmers at Longstone Moor Farm in Stoney Middleton, Hope Valley.
He travelled up to the county this morning and is visiting a rural village, where Tom Cruise’s latest blockbuster film Mission Impossible 7 is also being filmed.
Keep up with the latest updates on Boris Johnson’s visit to Derbyshire through our live blog below.
Prime Minister’s visit: Boris Johnson travels to rural Derbyshire farm in Peak District this morning
Key Events
- The Prime Minister is in Derbyshire today (April 23) visiting a farm in Stoney Middleton
- Mr Johnson’s met with farming family the Fairfaxes, discussing animals and feeding cattle
- Boris Johnson’s visit is near to a quarry, where a dramatic train crash is being filmed for the new Mission Impossible film
- Tom Cruise was spotted in Yorkshire a few days ago
Boris Johnson thanks Fairfax family before leaving Stoney Middleton
The Prime Minister has thanked the family who run Longstone Moor Farm for letting him visit.
Derbyshire family give PM “best shaved” lamb to feed
Sarah Fairfax, 16, said “we gave him the best-behaved lamb” to hold while the Prime Minister visited her family’s farm in Stoney Middleton.
WATCH: Boris Johnson discusses sheep farming at Longstone Moor Farm
The Prime Minister shares anecdote about a sheep he knew called Nelly which “grew to be enormously fat” while speaking to the Fairfax sisters in Stoney Middleton.
He visited their family run farm today and has discussed farming, while also feeding cattle.
Prime Minister feeds lamb at farm in Stoney Middleton
Mr Johnson is chatting to two of the Fairfax sisters at Longstone Moor Farm.
The Fairfax family who own and run Longstone Moor farm
The family spoke to Boris Johnson on his visit to the Longstone Moor farm in Stoney Middleton today.
Dinner time: PM shakes food for cows at Derbyshire farm
Mr Johnson is shaking food for the cows at a farm in Stoney Middleton today.
He is pictured helping young farmer Jonathan Fairfax do the feeding rounds.
Boris Johnson feeds cows at Longstone Moor Farm
The Prime Minister is helping the Fairfax family at Longstone Moor Farm feed their cattle.
He asked young farmer Jonathan “what is this stuff you’re feeding them?”.
Tea break: Dry stone walling
Mr Johnson is talking about the picturesque dry stone walling in Derbyshire with residents in Stoney Middleton.
A farmer in Stoney Middleton describes “a male lamb without its main bits” to the Prime Minister
There’s laughter at Longstone Moor Farm as a farmer from the Fairfaxes family describes what “a male lamb without its main bits” is called to Boris Johnson.
Watch the video on our Twitter profile which captured the moment in Stoney Middleton.