Dear Mr Sunak,  

The totemic issue of our times is freedom.

All political nostra come down to this: Freedom to do what we want – so long as our actions do not physically harm anyone else.

The freedom of the individual should be sacrosanct. Yet the freedom to travel, raise a family, start a business, publish and broadcast, to live unfettered is all under threat.  

The Hunting Ban of 2004 best illustrates this. Blair’s prejudiced attack on country folk heralded the start of a wider foreclosure on all who think differently to the urban metro-sexual wokestas. Numerous Tory MPs vowed to repeal it. Yet they too succumbed to the agitprop of the left.   

For nearly 20 years now, we have pawed the ground in vain. We have argued for the repeal of the Hunting Act. We have been ignored. Nevertheless, come rain or shine we have obeyed the law. A generation has come of age sowing scented trails across plough and meadow, through fosse and wood. We take life-and-death risks as a matter of routine. Like all our riders and runners, we remain resolute in keeping our horses and hounds together.

We’re still here. Ban our sport, freeze our bank accounts, cancel us in the media and bar us from the professions, we shall neither cavil nor falter. Our chase is sacred, our cause just.  

Prime Minister, take counsel of we who wander under open skies, hounds at our heels. Hunting folk sense the rightness in a course of action. A hidden thread guides us, a thread that connects with an older morality. This has taught us to do what is right, not what is expedient, however hard that may be.  

The three recent by-elections carry a message unremarked by the mass media. Steve Tuckwell’s victory in Uxbridge and South Ruislip points to growing public disquiet at so-called net-zero polices. It’s not just the good people of West London who are worried. Imagine a prohibitive tax on red diesel, bans on second hand cars and flatulent cattle: Bankruptcy for the countryside looms.  

Yorkshire’s rural constituency of Selby and Ainsty flagged up the prospect of country folk sitting out the next general election. Somerton and Frome is also rural with a mosaic of healthy farms and a prosperous defence industry.  

In all three places the current administration is deemed to have failed to protect their interests. That said, the person who should be most alarmed at the results is Sir Keir Starmer, who should have won all three.  

Forget about elections, Mr Sunak; there is no mileage left in expediency. Fortune favours the bold. Set out to future-proof the United Kingdom against the slings and arrows of the black-masked ones:  

1. Boost the military with the new squadrons and regiments, bristling with the best equipment armourers can conjure.  

2. Start the process of freeing us from a dysfunctional healthcare system run by gnomic bureaucrats.  

3. Lay the foundations of energy independence. Split the atom anew, dig, delve and drill for fuel that empowers poverty-busting economics.  

4. Be sure to repeal the Hunting Act, that Britain’s back-bone tribe which hunts, farms, fishes and shoots looks again at the assertive politics of progress and pragmatism. This is the noble and right thing to do.  

We have watched as our country has been wound down, our past trashed, our heroes stripped of their laurels, our faith slammed as false, our love of beauty deemed hateful and ugly. Show you mean business by repealing the Hunting Act thereby firing a flaming arrow of freedom into the thatch of woke-repression.  

Remember, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong…..yet time and chance happen to them all. Spend a twelvemonth asserting that all men and women have the right to hunt, dance and say what they think out loud without let or hindrance. A new constitution.

The outcome of the next election may be in doubt, but the upholding of traditional British freedoms is not. What have you to lose in a spirited reprise of the protocols of liberty?  

Yours sincerely,

Andy the Trailayer aka John Musgrave