Cameron is courting controversy with plans to lift the UK hunting ban, should the Conservatives get into power.

According to a leaked private letter, David Cameron intends to overturn the hunting ban should the Conservatives win the next General Election. In the correspondence, David Maclean, the former Tory chief whip, writing on behalf of Cameron, instructed MPs to reassure "our friends in the hunting world" that a Tory government would overturn the Hunting Act as a matter of urgency, in a simple one-line Bill.

This news has been welcomed by huntsmen who turned out in droves this weekend to mark the second anniversary of the passing of the hunting ban in the UK. The letter, which was published in The Sunday Telegraph, said:

"Over the last few months, colleagues have been speculating on the different ways we could honour our commitment."

"There is a danger that our straightforward commitment to bring a Bill before Parliament to repeal the Act.....could get confused."

"All colleagues are therefore urged to simply repeat our commitment to repeal the Act. This would be, of course, on a free vote."

Stranger looked into the hunting debate in issue 02, to read the article click here.