Sophie Mei Lan speaks to Peter Wright for the Mrs Yorkshire podcast by The Yorkshire Post.
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00:00What are your views on Jeremy Clarkson and Clarkson's family?
00:03Oh, well, I think Jeremy is not lost his Yorkshire roots.
00:14I think he sometimes forgets them.
00:17And I know when a time ago now, he was critical of Channel 5,
00:25that the fact that they had fallen in love with Yorkshire,
00:29and he struggled to understand what all that was about.
00:32And he reeled off all these Yorkshire programmes,
00:35including the Yorkshire Vet,
00:37and including the fact that they made a television programme
00:40about me called The Peter Wright Story.
00:42He said, what's all that about?
00:43One of these days, I'd love to meet Jeremy
00:46and tell him what it's all about in true Yorkshire fashion,
00:49which in language that he'll understand.
00:52But also, I think he's been a wonderful,
00:56wonderful advocate for farming.
00:58The farmers love him because he says it as it is.
01:02And my wife loves Jeremy Clarkson.
01:05She loves it when he was on Top Gear.
01:07She will watch those old programmes over and over again.
01:10And I was never into cars.
01:12My wife was, but I think what he's done for farming
01:17is immeasurable, really.
01:19And with the present conflict with the government,
01:22as it is now, over inheritance tax,
01:25which I went to support with a protest in Thirsk.
01:29And I felt so strongly about that
01:31because it's one more nail in the coffin
01:34of small family farms.
01:36And I feel very, very strongly about this.
01:38The government do not understand life in the countryside.
01:43They don't understand anything about running a business.
01:46Jeremy Clarkson does.
01:48And Jeremy Clarkson shows farming for what it is,
01:52that it's a struggle.
01:53It's a struggle.
01:54They always say with farming,
01:56and this is what the government do not understand,
01:59with farming, you turn a large fortune into a small fortune.