They’re so beautiful, said Steph McGovern this morning on BBC Breakfast. She was talking about newly born lambs, in an interview with a farmer in Wales. Part of the whole EU debate, of course. The farmer described how the lambs stay with their mothers for a whole 24 hours before being moved to a separate pen, to learn about life.

A strange choice of word, life, since the interview then moved on to talk about the proportion of lamb production destined for export to Other Member States.

I find it rather sad that we can look on these creatures, effectively babies, as both cute and tasty.