Today, members of the House of Lords will debate the Terminally Ill Adults Bill for the first sitting of Committee Stage. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Baroness Grey-Thompson, Lord Carlile of Berriew, Baroness Coffey, Lord Goodman of Wycombe, Lord Moylan, and Lord Sandhurst, all opponents of the Assisted Dying Bill, have together tabled 587 amendments to… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) met the new Policing Minister, Sarah Jones MP, on Wednesday 12 November, to raise concerns affecting the shooting community, including a forthcoming consultation on plans to merge shotgun and firearms licensing. During the meeting with the Minister, BASC underlined the sector’s commitment to high standards and public… Read more »
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Tony Blair has called on world leaders to broker a new deal on fair trade at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit next month in Hong Kong. The prime minister said anything short of the task would be a disaster for world economies, both developed and under-developed. Mr Blair said winning an agreement on the… Read more »
Arabic news channel al-Jazeera’s director general flew into the UK on Friday to demand the release of the memo in which US president George Bush allegedly discussed bombing the TV station’s Qatar headquarters. On Tuesday, The Daily Mirror said it had access to a secret government memo suggesting Tony Blair had talked Mr Bush out… Read more »
