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BASC was pleased to host the Secretary of State for Defra, Steve Barclay, at the inaugural Northern Gamekeepers’ Conference on Friday 8 March in the historic grounds of the Swinton Estate in Masham, North Yorkshire. The main hall at the Swinton Park Hotel was standing room only as gamekeepers from across the north of England… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »
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In a scathing attack on Liz Truss and her economic vision, former Bank of England governor Mark Carney accused the former PM of turning Britain into “Argentina on the Channel”. Carney also suggested that Brexiteers, whom the former Conservative leader claimed to champion during her short tenure as PM, had a “basic misunderstanding of what… Read more »
In the next few hours, Joe Biden will arrive at No 10 for his sixth official meeting with Rishi Sunak. The US president touched down at Stansted Airport on Sunday evening before being taken by helicopter to the residence of the US ambassador in central London. Mr Biden’s stopover in Britain comes ahead of a… Read more »