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Rally outside Parliament as MPs to debate assisted dying

Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision (MDMD) will be holding a rally on Parliament Square on 29 April at 15:30 to show their support for assisted dying legislation for the terminally ill and the incurably suffering. On Monday the House of Commons will be holding a Westminster Hall debate on assisted dying after an… Read more »

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Defra to review GL45 in light of reduction of AI risk

BASC has welcomed Defra’s announcement that the new General Licence (GL45), which governs the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges on and around certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs), is currently being reviewed. The current licence conditions are based on a medium level of risk of the occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild… Read more »

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The economic crisis took the Tories and Labour by surprise when it first hit.
Labour and the recession

Ed Miliband is formulating a new economic strategy in a bid to defeat government arguments that Labour was responsible for the recession. Labour officials are worried that the public have accepted coalition arguments about Labour’s responsibility for the recession. Party figures believe it was necessary to rack up a deficit in a bid to control… Read more »

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Admitting mistakes? Miliband wants to recalibrate Labour's economic strategy.
Miliband prepares to admit Labour mistakes

By Ian Dunt Labour will admit that it was too slow to use the language of cuts, in a bid to convince voters of its economic credential. In a controversial strategy meeting decided on at a meeting of the shadow Cabinet on Tuesday, Ed Miliband insisted that the party needed to accept criticism of its… Read more »