Perhaps you have seen the reception which the Wimbledon crowd gave to Sir David Attenborough when he took his seat at centre court on Monday? If not it’s here and I defy you not to smile.

With just three days to go before the general election, our would be leaders and political candidates have been doing everything they can, using every means of communication at their disposal, to sell themselves to us. Despite this full-blown sales pitch, which politician would receive anything close to the warm hearted, genuine affection shown for the man who has been the British figurehead for nature for the past few decades?

David Attenborough and his colleagues have shown us glorious wildlife wonders which have inspired and moved generations of viewers. Occasionally – more regularly in recent years – he has backed up the glory with serious warnings about the nature crisis and what we must do to live more in balance with the other species who share a unique - as far as we know - planet with us.

By contrast, the politicians who crave our affection have over the past six weeks, served up a rather uninspired message on the environment. Despite knowing it is an issue which people care about and take seriously, the general consensus seems to have been to avoid talking about it seriously for fear of scaring the voters. Voters who know we are in a nature crisis and who want something done about it.

In the week when new analysis from the Wildlife Trusts shows that nature voters could swing 28 seats across England and Wales, the Wimbledon crowd showed everyone just what people feel towards someone who is honest about wildlife.

Please use your vote for nature on Thursday. On Friday the work to bring wildlife back to Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull begins with a new set of MPs!