Editing Ann Widdecombe (section)

===Environmental and science issues===
She is a committed animal lover and one of the several Conservative MPs to have consistently voted for the ban on [[fox hunting|the hunting of foxes]].<ref>[http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=1701&dmp=1050 "Ann Widdecombe compared to 'Fox hunting&nbsp;– Ban'"], [[Public Whip]]. Retrieved on 21 March 2009.</ref> Widdecombe was among more than 20 high-profile people who signed a letter to Members of Parliament in 2015 to oppose David Cameron's plan to amend the [[Hunting Act 2004]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/news/1324609-snp-to-vote-against-tories-on-fox-hunting-ban-in-england-and-wales/|title=SNP to vote against Tories on fox hunting ban in England and Wales|date=13 July 2015|work=STV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715203740/http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/news/1324609-snp-to-vote-against-tories-on-fox-hunting-ban-in-england-and-wales/|archive-date=15 July 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=11 June 2021}}</ref>

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue of [[climate change]], but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/2489/Switching-lightbulbs-won-t-save-the-world|title=Switching Lightbulbs won't change the world|date=21 March 2007|publisher=Express.co.uk|access-date=26 August 2011}}</ref> In 2008, she wrote that her doubts had been "crystalised" by [[Nigel Lawson]]'s book ''[[An Appeal to Reason]]'';<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/48856|title=Yes, I am a heretic on global warming|date=18 June 2008|publisher=Express.co.uk|access-date=26 August 2011}}</ref> in 2014, she likened Lawson's difficulty in getting the book published to the [[Nazi book burnings|book-burnings in Nazi Germany]].<ref name="Nat12Nov">{{cite news |title=These are the climate change deniers in the Brexit Party |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/18031022.climate-change-deniers-brexit-party/|work=The National |date=12 November 2019|access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref> Later in 2008, Widdecombe claimed that the "science of climate change is robustly disputed",<ref name="Nat12Nov"/> then, in 2009, that "There is no climate change, hasn't anybody looked out of their window recently?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/79580/Now-the-EU-wants-to-ban-your-plasma-television|title=Article including refutation of any global warming|date=12 January 2009|publisher=Express.co.uk|access-date=26 August 2011}}</ref> She was one of the five MPs who voted against the [[Climate Change Act 2008]].<ref name="Nat12Nov"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2008-10-28&number=298|title=Climate Change Bill&nbsp;— Third Reading (and other amendments)|date=28 October 2008|publisher=The Public Whip|access-date=31 October 2014}}</ref>

The previous year, she voted to support a parliamentary motion in favour of [[homeopathy]], disagreeing with the Science and Technology Committee's Report on the subject.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2009-10/908|title=UK Parliament Early day motion 908|date=23 February 2010|publisher=Parliament UK|access-date=10 August 2015}}</ref>