Constitutional Reform
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 »
Latest articles
By politics.co.uk staff Frustrations with the new expenses system have already prompted retreats from the watchdog charged with overseeing the new regime. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority watchdog has dropped plans to assume 15% of phone calls made on their office phones are personal. Anger that many are being forced to make reductions in their… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The coalition government has brushed off its internal contradictions on Europe during the first full day of debate on the Queen’s Speech. The debate, on defence and foreign policy, threatened to reveal deeply-held splits on the topic of the EU between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Tory MP Bill Cash asked… Read more »
