Sir Ben Wallace warns the Government: ‘Don’t pick a fight with the countryside’

Sir Ben Wallace on a visit to the Heythrop Kennels.

**What makes a former cabinet minister with almost no personal experience of trail-hunting take up its cause?H &H hunting editor Catherine Austen explains all... **

“It’s our way of life,” says Sir Ben Wallace. “The rural communities are under a whole range of assaults and at the heart of it, we survive as communities because we tolerate each other. “That’s the difference between us and the ‘London bubble’ – we don’t all shoot and we don’t all hunt, and we […]