Fox Hunting: A Thing of the Past or the Future?
Izzy Swanson discusses why this activity is back on the political agenda.
With the current political climate, I doubt that you were thinking about fox hunting a couple of weeks ago when you were deciding who to vote for in the general election. But now that Theresa May has revealed that she is continuing the Conservatives’ trend of putting the repeal of the fox hunting ban on the party’s manifesto, it has brought the debate into the foreground again. However, as a YouGov poll made known in 2015, the majority of the UK do not want to see a return of the ‘sport’ in its original form, which was outlawed in 2004, so why does the Prime Minister want to revive something so unpopular?
One reason is Theresa May’s personal preference as, in her own words, she has “always been in favour of fox...