Senior Labour figures have joined a backlash over Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to eliminate fox hunting, warning the crackdown is “misguided” and could cost him the rural vote.
People from many walks of life turned out for the annual Boxing Day meets, a testament to the important role that hunts still play in rural areas today. Many remain angry at Tony Blair’s Hunting Act, a piece of legislative folly seemingly motivated as much by misplaced class envy as it was by concern over animal rights. But many others had hoped that the heat had begun to leave the hunting debate, with hunts adapting to the strict new rules. The only fox in the henhouse has been the animal right
Grant Shapps has moved to protect trail hunting on Ministry of Defence land this month by rejecting a demand for it be banned, The Telegraph can disclose.
There are few things that can generate the same “He’s been! He’s been!” squeals of enthusiasm as a stocking full of presents at the end of the bed on Christmas morning. But, in our house, there was one thing: the arrival of the meet card – essentially, the hunt’s fixture list.
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