Since last year's election, the government has launched an all-out assault on green fields, shaded lanes, ancient woodlands and quiet villages that make up the British countryside.

Labour doesn't understand it, doesn't value it and treats people who live there as an ideological enemy to be defeated. Its latest move is an arrow aimed at the very heart of rural life: the British pub. Aside from a few weasel words from Starmer, Labour shows no interest in stopping it. Labour has waged this war from day one, weeks after last year's election. The only thing I got wrong was understanding the scale.

One of Labour's first acts was lifting the ban on onshore windfarms. Energy Secretary Ed Milliband, the ultimate North London townie, plans to plaster our green fields with pylons, cables, solar panel and towering turbines to fulfil his net zero drive.

Labour's tax war continues to crush rural employers, farms, pubs and village businesses operating wafer-thin. Just another of Labour's scorched earth policy.

Farmers have shown it's possible to fight back. The rest of the countryside must do the same. We cannot let Starmer and his cronies bulldoze a way of life that Labour seems to actively loathe and is only too happy to obliterate.