UK badger cull to end as Government issues no new licenses from 2022
The Government has today announced an end to badger culling - which Boris Johnson's fiancée Carrie Symonds has campaigned against for years. No new licences will be issued for badger culling after 2022 and all existing permits will not be extended beyond 2028 at the latest, Environment Secretary George Eustice told MPs. The 'contentious and divisive' cull, introduced in a bid to eradicate bovine TB, has cost around £60million and seen the deaths of approximately 140,000 badgers. The decision will be seen as a major victory for the Prime Minister's fiancée Ms Symonds, 32, an avowed opponent of the badger cull, and conservation groups. No new licences for badger culling will be issued from 2022 and all existing licences will not be able to be extended beyond 2028, Environment Secretary George Eustice said in a statement to MPs The decision will be seen as a major victory for Prime Minister's fiancée Carrie Symonds (pictured), an avowed opponent of the badger cull, and conservation groups It comes after Ms Symonds said she was 'delighted' when a badger cull in Derbyshire was called off following a 'direct intervention from the Prime Minister' in September 2019. The U-turn sparked a judicial review into how the Government came about the decision, with questions raised about the influence exerted on the PM by Ms Symonds. But Read the full article
