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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is urging supporters of sustainable shooting to take immediate action in response to a petition by Wild Justice calling for a ban on grouse shooting. Many newly elected MPs may be unfamiliar with the environmental, social and economic benefits sustainable grouse shooting delivers, leaving them open to… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has called on the government to press ahead with long promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. In written evidence to the House of Commons public accounts committee into NHS financial sustainability the MDU explains that the government must introduce legal reforms to the current clinical negligence system… Read more »
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The government has neglected to tackle “obscene” levels of destitution, Gordon Brown has said. He argued Conservative ministers have “systematically shredded” the social security system over the last decade. The former prime minister, who left office in 2010, has said Britain is experiencing a hidden poverty “epidemic”, with some of the worst-affected households going without… Read more »
A Conservative MP has warned that his party “will move into oblivion” if it continues on a “right wing approach”. Tobias Ellwood, a former minister and defence select committee chair, has suggested his party will move itself “out of British politics” if it heeds the advice of individuals like former PM Liz Truss, who launched… Read more »
