Last month, as Zac Goldsmith MP announced Government plans to ban people from owning primates as pets, environmentalists around the UK pricked up their ears. This move to end the trade in animal suffering was a heart-warming moment of good news in the recent morass of political doom. Was it to herald a new dawn in progressive, environmentally responsible legislation? An avalanche of policy outlining a new direction for a new net-zero UK after Brexit? A wide ranging strategy for sustainable global trade?
Nope. And with the current parliamentary chaos, we could be waiting a long time for even this step towards more humane trade to make it onto the statute books.
