Labour Party
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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There will be “financial consequences” after the government made major concessions to its welfare rebels, a senior minister has admitted. Pat McFadden, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, indicated that the fiscal fallout of the eleventh hour U-turn will be set out at the budget expected in the autumn. Hours before MPs were set… Read more »
Keir Starmer declared shortly after winning the general election that ‘the fight for trust is the battle that defines our political era’. Based on the findings of the latest British Social Attitudes survey, that battle is being comprehensively lost. Trust in politics has not recovered since Labour took office, and on most scores has got… Read more »
