Environment minister Zac Goldsmith appeared to back his under-fire brother yesterday as he said the Government was ‘committed’ to rewilding. Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park is a Conservative Life peer who has sat under this title in the Lords since 13 January 2020. Copyright 2020 Zac Goldsmith . Zac Goldsmith answers questions in the Lords on the impact of future trade agreements on animal welfare and environmental standards. View comments. Believe it or not, these women are all in their eighth decade. The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park was appointed as Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Department for International Development and … the Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, and his given name is Zac Goldsmith. Equation used to downgrade students results will leave...Poorer pupils are worst hit by A-level downgrades with 10% seeing marks lowered - but record numbers of...If Gavin Williamson's handling of A-levels, getting children back to school and establishing authority over...The X-rated billionaire: Sumner Redstone was the Hollywood mogul who sacked Tom Cruise and made a fortune...Lindsay Birbeck's teenage killer, 17, is unmasked as traveller named after boxer Rocky Marciano as judge...EXCLUSIVE: Ex-lover of fired McDonald's exec tells of romantic luxury trips on company's jet and plans to...JANET STREET-PORTER: I give it a year before Harry is sick of his gilded cage in America's dullest city....A cut-price palace... but running costs on Prince Harry and Meghan's $14.7m Santa Barbara mansion they...JAN MOIR: If this is finding freedom, count me in Harry! e-mail; 10 shares. Beauty salons will be able to offer eyebrow threading and facials...£3,200 fines for shunning face masks: Boris Johnson unveils penalties for repeat offenders will keep...Britain still far off herd immunity as just 1-in-16 people are infected with coronavirus during 'first wave'Sadiq Khan admits for first time that staff working from home is a 'BIG PROBLEM for central London'... after...France goes on quarantine list: Holiday chaos for 500,000 Brits as they are told anyone returning to the UK...Northampton faces lockdown after nearly 300 workers at a sandwich factory that supplies M&S test positive...Officials record 18 more coronavirus victims in England but none in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland amid...'He's dying': Harrowing moment teenager begs for help after her miniature pinscher was mauled to death by a...Off-duty conductor climbed out of wreckage of ScotRail train and walked a mile to a signal box to raise the...London's Hammersmith Bridge is closed amid fears it could COLLAPSE: 133-year-old Thames crossing is...Who says 70 can't be sexy? Environment minister Zac Goldsmith appeared to back his under-fire brother yesterday as he said the Government was ‘committed’ to rewilding.The Tory peer said farmers should be ‘rewarded’ for allowing their land to return to its natural state, letting native plants and animals come back.His public backing for the policy comes as the police are investigating his younger brother Ben Goldsmith, a Department for Environment board member, over claims by neighbours that he released red deer and wild boar from his land in breach of rules.Millionaire farmer Mr Goldsmith told the Mail last night that the issue was ‘a bit of a Vicar of Dibley-style local ding-dong’ and said he believed it was due to two neighbours who had ‘philosophical’ differences with him over his rewilding stance.Environment minister Zac Goldsmith appeared to back his under-fire brother yesterday as he said the Government was ‘committed’ to rewildingYesterday Lord Goldsmith said in a speech to Tory think-tank Bright Blue: ‘I’m committed to ensuring that as we invest our Nature for Climate fund, we place a lot of importance on rewilding.’He added that he wanted to see a ‘much greater uptake of rewilding’.Lord Goldsmith also hailed the end of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which will become the Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM) after the Brexit transition period.

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