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Unelectable and unspeakable but still chasing the inedible
PETER FROST has been out with the hunt
Anti-hunt campaigners outside the National Trust AGM at the Steam Museum in Swindon, where National Trust members have narrowly voted down a proposal to ban legal hunting on the organisation's land

We all know that Prime Minister Theresa May has always been in favour of fox-hunting because she has often told us so.  

In return, no less than 84 per cent of the British public have told her and other hunting fans in Westminster that they do not agree with those outdated opinions.

Overwhelmingly the general public wants Labour’s 2004 ban of hunting with dogs to stay firmly in place.

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