“Now that the debate and the vote on the statutory instrument on adjusting the Hunting Act to bring it into line with the legislation in Scotland has been postponed I will not be responding to standard form emails or tweets on the subject. When the matter comes to be debated in the future no doubt people from both sides of the argument will be in touch and my staff and I will endeavour to respond appropriately but the number of identical, standard form emails on this or any other subject is far less influential than the quality of the arguments advanced and such emails merely clog up the system and delay work on constituency case work.”