I like to wind up our picture editors by making ludicrous requests such as “arthritic penguin”, “quizzical rat” and “disappointed but stoical praying mantis”.
However, today’s cover story did lend itself to the demand for “anxious piglet”.
If you are a cow, sheep, pig, horse, goat, duck or goose, then Brexit has its upsides. The Tories used leaving the EU to ban the export of live animals for slaughter or fattening. Foie gras production is also now banned in the UK – although import remains legal, despite YouGov polling that suggests 86 per cent of the public support a ban on that too.
Of course the fate of any three little piggies in Britain is still going to be pork and Bramley apple sausages, rather than Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web. But the ban on live exports was introduced for good reasons: to improve animal welfare by ending long, stressful, harmful journeys in grim conditions, as well as to support British farming.
UK animal welfare standards are ahead of other European nations’. So today’s cover story – the news that our rules may be watered down as the price of Labour’s Brexit reset with Europe – is unwelcome.
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Earlier this week, Reform leapt ahead of Labour in UK opinion polls. Last night a Reform civil war broke out, rather sooner than most observers expected.
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The i Paper has a new video series looking at Nigel Farage’s plans for power – and his relationship with Donald Trump. To watch part one, go to youtube.com/@theipaper.
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