Michael Meacher

who kind of went along with it.

I know people like Michael Meacher and others, you know, really good, solid socialists.

Yeah, Meacher came back, didn't he? He came back.

He came back.

If you want to save as much wildlife at the lowest possible cost, you have to rewild land.

You have to learn how land flourishes when it is properly rewilded when all the elements of a natural ecosystem come together they create their own beauty and perfection and diversity and that's what i needed to do so i knew the beaver was the best thing you could do to rewild you know riverbanks and wetlands so i i went to extraordinarily lengths with with my colleague john mccallister to do the first ever beaver rewilding project and defeated numerous obstacles in government you've got no idea how big the fight was And finally, up to the then environment minister, Michael Meacher, where we got a meeting and he cast aside all of his naysayers in the department and said, yep, go and do it and give us a license to go and do it.

And that's projects been going on.

whatever, 25 years and has created the most profoundly beautiful nature reserve full of life from a area degraded.

You know, reflecting on working with Andy, I've known Andy a very long time.

And ironically, the first time I met Andy was I was a union rep when I was a home care worker in Unison North West and him alongside Michael Meacher and Tony Lloyd.

Local Manchester Labour MP.

Local Manchester MPs.