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During last night’s late night sitting in the House of Lords, running beyond 2am, peers voted to allow women to continue to access abortion services at home. Prior to Covid, women were required to attend a clinic in person to access abortion pills. But since then, they have been able to receive the pills by post. The… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has committed to contributing £75,000 towards Natural England’s hen harrier recovery work over the next three years, via its Legacy Fund. Three annual payments of £25,000 will aid Natural England’s objectives of winter roost monitoring, support and education around diversionary feeding, and the southern reintroduction of the species. The three-year agreement follows… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt The Conservatives have opted to make their plans for welfare reform the centre-piece of their conference agenda. Plans originally drawn up by David Freud for Tony Blair have now been taken up in full by the Tory leadership, including a consolidation of Labour’s various back-to-work programmes into one single programme. Those on… Read more »
politics.co.uk talks to the employment minister about party conferences, Labour spending cuts… and Banksy. By Liz Stephens Jim Knight is a bit of an enigma. New Labour through and through with an almost unmatched obedience to party policy in his voting record, you could get easily get the wrong impression about him on paper. However,… Read more »
