‘We’re the solution, not the problem’
IT is always fun discovering, every two years, the particular passions of the new president of the Country Land & Business Association (CLA), from motorbikes and mushrooms to mountaineering. The 55th, Mark Tufnell, who took office last week, is a ‘grey-partridge nut’, whose favourite pastime is walking around his Cotswold farm totting up endangered Perdix perdix.
‘We started counting in 2005 with one pair and got up to 20 pairs in 2012, but it crashed with some bad winters,’ he says. ‘We now have a young keeper who carries out legal predator control and we went up
