Country pub offers free pint to black lab owners amid uproar over Labour minister's 'far-right fantasy' claim

A country pub is offering black lab owners free pints after a Labour minister called the idea of Britain based on pubs, warm ale and black labradors a "far-right fantasy that never really existed".The Trowel and Hammer in Cotton, Suffolk, will hand punters "a free warm beer with every black labrador" in a special offer amid outrage at the MP's claim.Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the Nature Minister who represents nearby Suffolk Coastal, claimed the traditional imagery of Britain was a "far-right nostalgic vision" that "we don't want to have".She claimed the so-called "far-right" will try to weaponise rural Britain at the next election, and said she lies "awake at night" and "fears" what "nostalgic vision" of the countryside will be used in the...

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