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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
The government’s new environmental land management schemes are an open door for management practices undertaken for shooting and conservation, says the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The two new schemes unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defra George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference will play a pivotal role in the Governments’… Read more »
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John McDonnell has accused Keir Starmer of a ‘grubby’ and ‘dishonest’ approach over his plans to reverse the one-person-one-vote system for leadership elections. The party has used this system for leadership elections since Ed Miliband’s 2015 reforms, which were largely seen as responsible for moving the party to the left under Jeremy Corbyn. Restoration of… Read more »
A report released by the work and pensions committee today said the government must commit to a cross-departmental child poverty strategy. The report, the first part of the committee’s wide-ranging inquiry into children in poverty, underscores the impact of poverty in childhood for children’s lived experiences now and in adulthood, including in health and education…. Read more »
