Farmers have told Michael Gove and anyone else who thinks it is acceptable to run through fields of wheat to "follow the countryside code" as the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs encouraged the practice.

On Good Morning Britain, Mr Gove laughed when asked whether Theresa May's previous antics, when she ran through fields of wheat, were harmful to the environment.

Piers Morgan asked: "One of the menaces to the environment is people trampling on wheat fields.

"Will you be clamping down on these miscreants who run through wheat fields, causing tremendous damage to our environment?"