The Guardian is reporting that No. 10 is set to delay plans to release beavers into the wild, potentially because it is seen by officials as a ‘Tory legacy’. Could it be that Labour’s Steve Reed is set to join a long line of Defra ministers who, having promised finally to legalise the reintroduction of beavers into the wild, end up backpedalling under pressure from rural lobbyists who have long decided beavers have no place in the countryside? The assorted vested interests, farming representatives and rural power cliques who direct countryside policy from the shadows dislike beavers on account of their astonishingly...
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