YOU DON’T HAVE TO know a lot about politics to understand that there’s nothing politicians like more than introducing legislation that will enhance their popularity with the public and win them votes. Tony Blair’s government didn’t ban foxhunting because it cared one jot about foxes: it was a cynical vote-winner, based on the fact that opinion polls showed that the majority of the public supported a ban. The fact that the same majority of people had probably never seen a foxhound in their life was irrelevant.
Blair later came to
