Chris Bryant
BASC was pleased to host the Secretary of State for Defra, Steve Barclay, at the inaugural Northern Gamekeepers’ Conference on Friday 8 March in the historic grounds of the Swinton Estate in Masham, North Yorkshire. The main hall at the Swinton Park Hotel was standing room only as gamekeepers from across the north of England… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »
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Prime minister Boris Johnson has been grilled in liaison committee this afternoon. Standards committee chair Chris Bryant pushed Johnson particularly hard on the fallout from Chris Pincher. Bryant went on to tell the PM “you’re not going to learn any lessons and you’re not going to change”.
No 10 have succumbed to calls from Labour and other to publish Lord Geidt’s resignation letter in which he accuses Boris Johnson of risking a “mockery” of ministerial code in trade policy changes. Downing Street have since said that they could scrap the ethics adviser role entirely instead of seeking a replacement for Geidt. Labour’s… Read more »