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Another elephant in the Tory room
PETER FROST has an unusual ally in Prince William in warning that government policy on ivory trading could prove fatal for one of Africa’s endangered species

THERESA MAY has made more U-turns than the clown’s car in Billy Smart’s circus. And she has dropped promised policies and buried others too.

So many, in fact, that you might have missed her abandonment of Tory promises to ban the sale of ivory in Britain. One person who hasn’t is the second-in-line heir to the throne, William Windsor.

Along with conservation groups, environmental campaigners, politicians and celebrities, he has said that the reversal in policy would lead to the illegal killing of thousands of elephants, and urged the government to implement a total ban on all ivory trade.

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