Nick renews calls for independent review on transgender policy

In the House of Lords, Nick says that it is time to look at transgender issues dispassionately and carefully, and to detoxify the debate.

SpeechesNick HerbertMay 1, 2025LGBT

'Yes, we can end TB': Nick's message on World TB Day

In a video message Nick says that while the fight to beat the world’s deadliest infectious disease faces new challenges there is still hope that we can beat TB.

SpeechesNick HerbertMarch 24, 2025TB, Global TB Caucus, Global Fund

We must maintain government programmes to end TB

Ahead of World TB Day Nick asked a question in the House of Lords about the need for the Government to maintain TB programmes when the US has cut funding.

SpeechesNick HerbertMarch 20, 2025TB, Global TB Caucus, Global Fund

Change is no longer a choice

In an article in The Field, Nick warns that the threat to ban trail hunting necessitates going further and faster to demonstrate that the sport is being properly conducted.

ArticlesNick HerbertFebruary 5, 2025hunting, Countryside Alliance

Nick addresses Nigerian Parliament on urgency of tackling TB

Together with his co-founder of the Global TB Caucus and Africa Region Co-Chair, Hon Stephen Mule MP from Kenya, Nick spoke to MPs in the Green Chamber of the House of Representatives in Abuja.

SpeechesNick HerbertDecember 14, 2024TB, Global TB Caucus

Non-crime hate incidents are undermining trust in officers, says police college head

In an interview with the Telegraph, Nick says force may need ‘rebalancing’ so it can ‘focus on job it is suppose to do’ rather than getting involved in ‘mere disputes’

Press coverageNick HerbertNovember 21, 2024Policing, police

The family farm tax has fatally undermined the trust of rural communities in the Government

In the House of Lords, Nick strongly criticises the Government’s new policy to restrict Agricultural Property Relief for farms

SpeechesNick HerbertNovember 21, 2024Farming, Countryside Alliance

We need to rebalance the policing of non-crime hate incidents

In the House of Lords Nick welcomes the Home Secretary’s call for ‘common sense’ and says that the police should not be drawn into the policing of ‘mere disputes’

SpeechesNick HerbertNovember 20, 2024Policing, police

We can't talk about Antimicrobial Resistance without talking about TB

In a speech at the UN High Level Meeting on AMR Nick calls for immediate action to tackle drug resistant tuberculosis

SpeechesNick HerbertSeptember 26, 2024United NationsTB

The Holocaust Memorial - how can an idea that is so right have gone so wrong?

Speaking in the House of Lords, Nick warns that the planned location of the Holocaust Memorial at Westminster is a mistake

SpeechesNick HerbertSeptember 4, 2024Holocaust Memorial

The new Government must support racing — the UK’s second biggest sport

In the House of Lords Nick calls on the new Government to support the racing and bloodstock industries

SpeechesNick HerbertJuly 30, 2024racing

Hunts must act to change public and political perception

Nick warns hunt supporters that while the King’s Speech did not include an anti-hunting bill, they are not out of the woods

SpeechesNick HerbertJuly 17, 2024Countryside Alliance, hunting

Nick swears the Oath of Allegiance to the King in the new Parliament

After the General Election, members of the House of Lords are summoned to the new Parliament by the King where (like elected Members of Parliament) they swear an Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty.

SpeechesNick HerbertJuly 10, 2024House of Lords

Protecting our way of life

As the general election approaches, Nick tells My Countryside magazine how he is fighting to preserve the essence of the countryside

Press coverageNick HerbertMay 20, 2024Countryside Alliance

A world increasingly polarised on LGBT rights

Nick reflects on IDAHOBIT - the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

ArticlesNick HerbertMay 17, 2024LGBT, envoy

UNGA should address TB and antimicrobial resistance together

Nick calls for TB to be addressed at the upcoming High Level Meeting on Anti Microbial Resistance at the UN

BlogNick HerbertMay 15, 2024AMR Review, TB

It’s time the Government stopped harming racing with intrusive meddling

Writing in the Sun, Nick says this major sport should get the poltiical backing it deserves

ArticlesNick HerbertFebruary 23, 2024racing

Conversion Therapy is harmful, cruel and should be banned

Nick supports a ban on Conversion Therapy and renews his call for a Royal Commission on transgender issues

SpeechesNick HerbertFebruary 9, 2024LGBT, envoy

Labour must end its strange obsession with hunting

In a Sunday Telegraph article Nick argues that Labour will never win the trust of rural voters for as long as it goes to war with their traditions

ArticlesNick HerbertDecember 24, 2023hunting, country sports, Countryside Alliance

Nick speaks about the importance of equal marriage

In a debate in the House of Lords on a Church of England report on families, Nick raises the issue of the Church’s attitude to same-sex marriage.

SpeechesNick HerbertDecember 8, 2023lgbt, envoy, global equality caucus, equality