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BASC amendments place the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill on a more ‘workable’ footing. BASC has claimed a significant victory in a crucial vote on the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill, which will ensure that grouse shooting continues unhampered. MSPs in the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee today, 7 February, entered day one of… Read more »
A UK Government petition to hold a parliamentary vote on assisted dying has passed 100,000 signatures in less than a month, and will be considered for Westminster Hall debate in Parliament. Humanists UK has welcomed the news, thanked members and supporters who have already signed and encouraged others to add their signatures. This petition calls for… Read more »
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Labour has knocked four points off the Conservative party’s lead but still trail by eight per cent in an opinion poll out today. The Daily Telegraph/YouGov survey put Gordon Brown’s Labour on 33 per cent and the Tories on 41 per cent, leaving the prime minister still struggling to win public support. Meanwhile the Liberal… Read more »
Gordon Brown has denied “dithering” over Peter Hain, who resigned from the government yesterday after the Metropolitan police was asked to investigate his failure to report £103,000 in donations. Mr Hain telephoned the prime minister to resign as work and pensions secretary and Welsh secretary immediately after the Electoral Commission said it would refer the… Read more »
