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The Government has today brought forward a Bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Humanists UK has welcomed this move as long overdue reform. But it has also said that the next step should be to remove the 26 Church of England bishops, known as the Lords Spiritual, who also have an automatic right… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has urged the Scottish Government to resist introducing further regulation, in response to a proposed new ‘Natural Environment Bill’ in Scotland. The commitment to the new bill was included in a document outlining the Scottish Government’s policy and legislative plans for the year ahead, launched today by… Read more »
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The Conservative Party lost the Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections with swings to Labour of 20.5 percentage points and 23.9 points respectively in a historically bad night for the government. In the aftermath, the losses of Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire are now being compared to British politics’ last slate of by-elections, namely in Uxbridge and… Read more »
As members, lobbyists, reporters and NGOs flocked to Liverpool for Labour conference, there were some worries that Labour could follow the government’s rollback on climate and energy commitments that we had seen celebrated in Manchester the week before. Instead, by the end of the glitter-strewn leader’s speech, Starmer declared that “climate change is an opportunity… Read more »
