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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 30 October 2025

Debate

Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Contribution

It is therefore fascinating to see what happened when the world’s most powerful nations met in Canada in June, with Sir Keir Starmer sitting alongside President Trump, President Macron et al. Among their formal agreements was a shared commitment to prevent wildfires getting worse. The leaders called for the use of controlled burning. There was no namecheck for the voguish notion of rewetting, which circulates within Natural England, but the world leaders did advocate controlled burning to reduce the risk of extreme wildfires, which

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