Drop right to roam from rural law Yeo

THE governments “ideological fixation” has politicised the impending legislation on countryside protection by including right-to-roam proposals, claims the shadow agriculture minister, in a letter to The Times.

Tim Yeo urges the government to introduce a countryside protection bill “shorn of extraneous ideology”.

• The Times 04/06/02/99 page 23 (Letters to the Editor)