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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been granted permission by the High Court to bring a judicial review of Defra’s decision to withdraw the general licence (GL43) that allowed the release of gamebirds in certain areas of England. BASC’s ‘Fighting Fund’ is being used to support the High Court challenge. BASC chief executive Ian… Read more »
Long overdue legislation setting out the regulatory framework for physician assistants (PAs) and anaesthesia assistants (AAs) has been published today. Commenting on the legislation, Dr Michael Devlin, head of professional standards and liaison at the MDU said: “This important piece of legislation not only introduces much needed regulation for PAs and AAs, it will also be… Read more »
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Being in opposition is always hard. When you’re opposing a coalition hell-bent on securing partisan advantage from constitutional changes, it’s even harder.
Labour has been alienated from helping the government with its Lords reform bill because of the coalition’s other changes to the constitution, a leading opposition frontbencher has told politics.co.uk.
