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BASC responds to Scottish Government’s announcement on deer management

Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »

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Labour pledge to stop foreign take-overs of 'strategic' British firms
Labour manifesto to include ‘Cadbury’ law to prevent foreign take-overs

By politics.co.uk staff A Labour government will prevent foreign takeovers of British companies if they are not in the national interest, it is believed. The party’s election manifesto will contain a pledge to stop companies that are designated ‘strategic’ or part of the national interest being bought by foreign firms, unless two-thirds of shareholders agree…. Read more »

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Vince Cable hostile to national insurance letter signatories
Cable’s contempt for NI business figures

By Alex Stevenson Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable has waded into the national insurance row by calling the interventions of business leaders “utterly nauseating”. Dr Cable went on the offensive after the first week of the general election campaign was dominated by Tory proposals to scrap the government’s planned one per cent hike in… Read more »