On Labour’s announcement of a broad, national conservation on land use… I think you’ve got this one wrong @_RobbieMoore. Labour is doing good here and Conservatives ought to support it. It was the last Conservative government that originally committed to launch a national consultation on land use. It was an excellent idea then and it’s good news that Labour is following through on that pledge. This is not about central planning. Taxpayers spend a fortune supporting farming, infrastructure development, housing, nature recovery and all kinds of activities across all of our land. With so many demands on a finite amount of land, it makes perfect sense that we as a society have some idea of the outcomes we wish to achieve and where. For example, regulations and incentives relating to scarce top quality agricultural land ought be geared towards farmers sustainably growing food for people, rather than using them for bogus ‘green’ energy crops, solar arrays, feed for factory farmed livestock, golf courses etc. And in our least productive landscapes, such as those within our national parks, where the land is simply unsuitable for productive farming (just 1-2% of our food is grown on the least productive 20% of the land) incentivising a grand, farmer-led nature recovery makes perfect sense. Most pressingly, we need our landscapes once again to absorb heavy rainfall, storing it, cleaning it and releasing it slowly through the year. Sponge landscapes rich in nature are vital to our national wellbeing, helping to insulate us from flash flooding, summer drought and even wildfire. Overwhelmingly our society wants nature and wildlife back. People understand how desperately depleted those are in Britain. Prioritising nature in landscapes not suited to high agricultural productivity makes perfect sense - and many farmers in those landscapes stand ready to take charge in delivering this. I really don’t think Conservatives do themselves any favours standing as the party of anti-nature, and mobbing Labour for fulfilling pledges that indeed were made by the last Conservative government.