Rory Stewart

biodiversity around the planet and Britain particularly brutally affected.

We have much less tree cover, for example, than most European countries, most comparable countries.

So there is a huge opportunity for us to lean into this.

And one of the things that's making me sad is if the government's looking for projects that can really have an impact and catch people's imagination and change perceptions,

I want them to return again.

And if Emma Reynolds is listening, I'm going to push this again on her.

Not just thinking about farming and people who look after the landscape, particularly small farmers who I think are being marginalized, but also trees.

So, for example, I want to push again this idea that I think the Greenbelt around London could become the largest forest in England.

And I mean a native forest.

I mean oaks.

I mean, biodiversity.

It will be great for the weather in London.

It'll be great for air quality.

It'll be great for climate change because the carbon capture.

It'll be great for the populations, millions of people getting into nature.

But most importantly of all, it'll be something that will be there for future generations.

I mean, the oak trees will still be there in four or 500 years time.

So imagine if you're Keir Starmer or Emma Reynolds, what a wonderful legacy that would be.

to, in 20 years' time, find yourself in this incredible forest of hundreds of millions of trees with all the transformation and biodiversity.

I've pitched already this documentary, it's just out on Amazon, on the king, on harmony.