Conservative MP Richard Drax calls for ‘all wild animals’ to be culled

A Conservative MP has said “all wild animals should be culled” to control their numbers.

Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, dismissed calls by conservation groups to end the badger cull.

Speaking at a debate on farming in the House of Commons, he instead suggested more animals, such as deer and foxes, should also be culled as they have no natural predators in the UK.

He said: “Culling has proved to work. And can I suggest that rather than talking about stopping culling badgers, … that all wild animals have to be culled because, if they don’t, their health deteriorates. They don’t have any predators in today’s world. …

“Foxes, deer, badgers. We don’t want to wipe them out, we just simply want them controlled. This is just pure common sense”

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