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Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »
The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
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Conservative leader David Cameron has removed the whip from backbencher Derek Conway as controversy over alleged overpayments continued today. Mr Conway faces a ten-day suspension from the Commons chamber after the standards and privileges committee found he had paid his son an unreasonably high salary for little apparent work. Mr Conway was forced to apologise… Read more »
The Conservatives’ lead over Labour is back in single figures, a poll out today shows. Figures from ComRes published in the Independent newspaper put the Tories on 38 per cent, eight points ahead of Gordon Brown’s Labour. While Labour are unchanged the Conservatives have dropped three per cent on December’s figures, however, while the Liberal… Read more »
