DEFENCE Secretary Ben Wallace has been accused of throwing a “veil of secrecy” over potentially unlawful hunting activities on land owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). 

It comes after Mr Wallace revoked a memorandum of understanding between the MoD and animal rights charity the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS), which allowed the group to monitor hunts on the Salisbury Plain.

Explaining why the agreement had been terminated, Mr Wallace cited “security concerns as well the behaviour of protesters and their attire which is intimidating to other users” in a letter to the group earlier this month.