Constitutional Reform
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
The government’s new environmental land management schemes are an open door for management practices undertaken for shooting and conservation, says the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The two new schemes unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defra George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference will play a pivotal role in the Governments’… Read more »
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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said there is “insufficient evidence” to bring charges against one of four people arrested in the cash-for-honours police investigation. Des Smith, who helped the government find sponsors for the city academy programme, was arrested last April after telling an undercover reporter that such sponsors could expect to get an… Read more »
Tony Blair has insisted he is not being distracted by the police investigation into cash-for-honours – but said he would not “plead” for his integrity. He made history in December by becoming the first serving British prime minister to be interviewed by police. And yesterday it emerged he was questioned for a second time last… Read more »
