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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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A government minister and ardent Brexiteer has urged businesses to “adapt” to higher post-Brexit costs, with food and fresh flower imports from the European Union subjected to new customs controls from today. Dame Andrea Leadsom, a health minister, insisted this morning that the additional checks due to not being in the EU single market have… Read more »
Veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman has said it is “ridiculous” and “embarrassing” that the Labour Party has yet to elect a woman leader. Harman, a former deputy leader of the party who has also twice served as acting leader following election defeats, recalled that “The Tories have managed to have two women leaders” — before… Read more »
