Immigration
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
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The government has won the right to send failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe, after a court decided there was no automatic risk of their being tortured on return. Immigration minister Liam Byrne said the government would now resume the enforced deportation of Zimbabweans who it considered were not at genuine risk of ill-treatment. However,… Read more »
Immigration is damaging the quality of life of millions of people in Britain and must be radically cut back, a backbench Conservative MP has warned. In a pamphlet for the right-wing Cornerstone group, Julian Brazier says the government’s immigration policy has led to increased pressure on housing and a subsequent rise in housing costs, which… Read more »
