A ComRes opinion poll commissioned by the animal welfare charity found that 43 per cent of peers would vote against repealing the Hunting Act – that’s up dramatically from 2001 when only 68 members of the upper house voted to ban hunting.
The poll found that 85 per cent of peers born after 1960 oppose hunting, compared with 40 per cent born before 1960 who wish to see it decriminalised.
Commenting on the findings, the League’s outgoing chief executive Douglas Batchelor said: “These new figures show how the landscape has changed – the balance of opinion in the Lords has shifted massively against hunting. The modern House of Lords prides itself on really standing up for the views of the public.
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