Countryside Alliance Send 10,000 Emails Criticising Labour’s Hunting Ban Plan

The Countryside Alliance, a prominent think tank for rural issues, revealed on Thursday that over 10,000 emails were sent to criticise the Labour Party’s recent pledge to ban fox hunting. Speaking during a visit in February to a farm in Northamptonshire, Labour’s shadow environment secretary Steve Reed told The Sunday Times that a full ban on hunting would be something his party would “do in the first term of a Labour government.” At the time, Polly Portwin, who leads the Countryside Alliance’s Hunting Campaign, said in an open statement, “Mr. Reed does not seem to have any understanding of what either trail or drag hunting entails and that they are currently lawful pursuits which involve the laying of a scent across the countryside for hounds to follow.”...