Labour MPs press for right to roam policy in England after supreme court ruling

MPs and campaigners celebrate outside the supreme court in London after the it ruled the public had a legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor without landowner permission. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Labour backbenchers are pressing the government to revive a right to roam policy in England after a supreme court ruling enshrined the right to wild camp on Dartmoor.

The court ruled this week that camping on the national park was legal after a multimillionaire hedge fund manager tried to remove the right to camp on his Devon estate, and by extension from the rest of the park.