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The Scottish Government has published its Natural Environment Bill, introducing controversial measures that significantly impact deer managers across Scotland. While the Government claims the Bill will modernise deer management to tackle the climate and nature emergency, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has branded the proposals “draconian”. Key provisions in the Bill include… Read more »
BASC has criticised the government’s decision to grant police automatic powers of entry into the homes of firearms certificate holders as unnecessary and an erosion of civil liberties. The police already have powers of entry to prevent crime and if life is in danger. They can also get a warrant from a magistrate and they… Read more »
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Robert Jenrick MP, the former Communities Secretary, has this afternoon kicked off his bid for the Conservative leadership with a rally in his Newark constituency. The rally is the first public event of the upcoming Conservative Party leadership contest. Addressing his supporters, Mr Jenrick played heavily on the fact that he had resigned as immigration… Read more »
Following this week’s riots in Southport, Aldershot, London and Hartlepool, in the wake of the tragic murders of three young girls in Southport, the prime minister has this afternoon launched a new ‘violent disorder taskforce’. Speaking at a press conference in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer noted how he believed that the riots were deliberate,… Read more »
