UK Government

When Health Secretary Wes Streeting said, “…there’s deep disillusionment in this country at the moment, and I would say a growing sense of despair, about whether anyone is capable of turning this country around,” those words struck a chord. They echo what Carnegie UK research has shown for some time: people feel unheard and uncertain about the future.

A new national petition has been launched calling on the UK Government to act urgently to save England’s remaining red squirrels, as their woodland habitats, including in North Yorkshire, continue to vanish under commercial deforestation.