Michael Gove, the leading Brexiter who’s now in charge of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is a natural iconoclast, sometimes a valuable characteristic in government. But in his year as justice secretary, he won fans across the prisons sector for his plans for radical reform. Writing on the Guardian website, he announced support for the EU’s plan for a total ban on the neonicotinoid group of pesticides. Evidence has been steadily growing of the debilitating harm these chemicals, the most widely used pesticides in the world, cause to pollinators, particularly bees. But it offers a future that gives bees a chance.

Source: The Guardian November 09, 2017 19:18 UTC