BASC’s head of firearms Bill Harriman has written to the Chief Constable of West Mercia Police to challenge its decision to make all applications for firearms and shotgun certificates online only. The force announced this week that from 1 May printed applications would no longer be accepted. In a letter to Chief Constable Alex Murray,… Read more »
Humanists UK has reacted to news that the Government is proposing to allow new state schools to discriminate in 100% of their places, condemning the move and calling instead for an end to all discrimination in the state school system. Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: ‘The proposal to allow 100% religious discrimination in… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has called the disincentives to work in New Labour’s welfare state a “tragedy”. But in a speech widely expected to outline in more detail the plans of the new government Mr Duncan Smith chose to focus on outlining the problems rather than the solutions to… Read more »
By Ian Dunt David Cameron will make a speech outlining his pro-business credentials tomorrow after the row over a capital gains tax hike began spreading among his backbenchers. David Davis joined the growing rebellion with a piece in the Daily Mail this morning, with a warning that a rise would hit the “self-reliant middle and… Read more »
