The former PM promised to build a 'Newtopia', consisting of 'newt motels', for the amphibians who have taken residence at Brightwell Manor, a Grade II listed building
Boris Johnson has vowed to do"whatever it takes" to protect newts that have threatened his plans to build an outdoor swimming pool at his Oxfordshire country manor.
In his latest Daily Mail column, Mr Johnson wrote:"If it turns out that our garden is so honoured and so fortunate as to be the home of some newts - great crested, palmate, whatever - I want you to know that I will do whatever it takes to protect them. "Mapping shows that there is a pond onsite and a moat immediately adjacent to the southern boundary, both well within 250 metres of the position of the proposed pool.Read more:Mr Johnson said that according to one of the ecology reports he has received - which he described as"amazingly expensive but worth every penny" -"there are certainly bodies of water nearby that could be hospitable to newts".
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