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Starmer’s right to roam pledge puts the Tories in a bind

7 July 2023

1:56 AM

7 July 2023

1:56 AM

Keir Starmer has come up with a good policy for once. He is promising to offer a Scottish-style right to roam across England, which would open up vastly more tracts of land for public recreation. The right to roam granted by the Blair government 20 years ago applies only to moorland, which is rare in the South East, while Starmer’s proposal would extend to woodland and other areas of uncultivated land.

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