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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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By politics.co.uk staff The UK has preserved its right to opt-out of the EU’s working time directive after long-running talks between the European parliament and government officials collapsed early this morning. The parliament had been pushing to remove the opt-out which allows people to work more than 48 hours a week for more than five… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Gordon Brown has visited the former concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau while on a trip to Poland. He is in Poland for talks with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk over troop deployments in Afghanistan and will visit the site later this afternoon. Poland is seeking international help to set up a ?120 million… Read more »
