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BASC is asking members and the wider shooting community to respond to a firearms licensing survey, despite describing it as a ‘red-herring’. The survey, coordinated by the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) on the back of the Plymouth shooting incident, is seeking views on firearms licensing in England and Wales. Questions within the… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) urged the Labour Party to listen to rural voters at a reception at the party’s annual conference in Brighton this weekend. Addressing shadow Environment Secretary Daniel Zeichner MP, BASC said those who live and work in Britain’s countryside should be listened to on issues such as the… Read more »
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A new opinion poll has given Labour its largest lead over the Conservatives since David Cameron became leader of the opposition. An ICM survey for the Sunday Telegraph puts prime minister Gordon Brown’s party on 40 per cent, seven points ahead of the Tories on 33 per cent. The Liberal Democrats were trailing on 19… Read more »
Gordon Brown has said that new challenges in the UK require a “new kind of politics” at the Labour party’s policy forum in London. In a speech which took a general look at Labour’s policy direction rather than discussing specific policies, Mr Brown said that tasks facing the party in 1997 remained and were joined… Read more »
