Constitutional Reform
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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 »
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The government has rejected calls to let parliament decide when the UK goes to war, insisting the prime minister must maintain powers allowing him to make decisions without parliamentary support. Currently, Tony Blair can use the Royal Prerogative to take the country to war. And the government today said he will keep these “war-making powers”…. Read more »
The Conservatives have condemned top public sector salaries as “crazily out of kilter” as new figures show the top 171 executives are earning an average of £260,000 each. Figures collated by the Taxpayers’ Alliance finds three people are earning more than £1 million a year for their work heading up public sector companies, a further… Read more »
