‘Or are they friendly creatures?’ The president would also ask if Priebus had any photos of badgers he could show him, and if Priebus could carefully explain to him how badgers ‘work’ exactly.

Badgers have been around in Britain for half a million years, with the UK being home to 25 per cent of the global badger population (around 250,000-400,000 badgers). So we have an international ...