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Labour pledges to ban badger cull

NFU deputy president Tom Bradshaw said it was 'something the union had been fearing'

Alex Black
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Labour pledges to ban badger cull

Labour has pledged to ban the badger cull, with the NFU stating the industry would find it 'hard to come to terms with' the party's stance.

Speaking to , Daniel Zeichner,  shadow farming minister, said: "I have spent a long time looking at this. The 2018 Godfrey review, the last piece of work done by the government, found that badger culling is not the answer.

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"We are going to make England bovine TB free by 2038, but with a range of measures that do not include culling."

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Responding to news, NFU deputy president Tom Bradshaw said it was something the union had been fearing and it had been doing everything possible to work with Labour to help them understand the importance of the controlled wildlife programme as an essential part of TB control.

He added the decision would be one that the industry would find it hard to come to terms with.

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