A dairy farmer has criticised plans from Labour to “close loopholes” around the fox hunting ban. David Brookes ran the Meynell and South Staffordshire Hunt at Lower Loxley Farm, near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire for two years. Labour has vowed to eliminate fox hunting within its first five years in power, claiming there is not a majority in “any part of the country” that wants to see it continue. However, Brookes, a former Tory councillor, has hit back at the plans, accusing Labour of pitting town and country against each other. He said: “I first got involved with hunting when I was town mayor. Th…