On reflection, interviewing the owner of a 3,000-acre stately home estate in North Yorkshire just an hour after the news broke of hefty inheritance tax changes in Labour’s budget may not have been the best timing. Add to that this landowner’s bad dose of flu and you might expect him to be downbeat. But far from it, even with those dark clouds looming.
Roger Tempest fizzes with optimism about his ambitions to rewild his considerable chunk of the Yorkshire Dales. ‘Rewilding’ and ‘regenerative farming’ are buzz-words bandied around so often these days that it’s hard not to be sceptical, but I soon ...
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