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Today, members of the House of Lords will debate the Terminally Ill Adults Bill for the first sitting of Committee Stage. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Baroness Grey-Thompson, Lord Carlile of Berriew, Baroness Coffey, Lord Goodman of Wycombe, Lord Moylan, and Lord Sandhurst, all opponents of the Assisted Dying Bill, have together tabled 587 amendments to… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) met the new Policing Minister, Sarah Jones MP, on Wednesday 12 November, to raise concerns affecting the shooting community, including a forthcoming consultation on plans to merge shotgun and firearms licensing. During the meeting with the Minister, BASC underlined the sector’s commitment to high standards and public… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff An audit will be conducted into the pay-offs received by council chiefs when they depart their jobs. Local government secretary John Denham is taking a tough line on the matter, after regular tales of bosses leaving due to personality clashes, receiving big pay-offs and then working at another council. “It’s not acceptable… Read more »
David Cameron has claimed the Conservatives’ “spectacular” victory in the local elections shows they are capable of winning seats across the country at a general election. The Conservative leader said the landslide victory, which is arguably the Tories’ best result in regional elections since the most dominant years of the Thatcher regime in the early… Read more »
