REGARDING the letter from J Tipple, of Winsford, lauding the ability and commitment of Margaret Hanson.

Can we assume that she will follow the party lines on the issue of outlawing fox hunting.

The full page advertisement in the Guardian from IFAW fails to point out the carnage strewn in the wake of a fox's excursion in a chicken run or the butchery they can achieve during the lambing season.

I have not seen or heard anyone from the Labour party object to the barbaric practice of ritual slaughter.

How can they condemn a practice that involves a significant number of foxes when compared with the thousands of farmed animals who are stunned, hung up, their throats cut and bled to death to satisfy a particular culture.

J OLIVER

Hartford.

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