88 packs of hounds will be destroyed, jobs will be lost and communities will be destroyed - for what?
Anne Perkins, political correspondent. A significant minority of Labour backbenchers are so angry that the government has backed off a total ban, using the Parliament Act to force the legislation through the Lords if necessary, that they will abstain on the second reading.…
The bill was given its second reading by 368 votes to 155, but there was scant support for the proposals from Labour backbenchers who are determined to ignore the principles of utility and cruelty and amend it into a total ban.…
Brian Davies lives in the United States and organised donations of more than £1m to the Labour Party in 1997 and a further £30,000 from Mr Davies's UK-based campaign, the Political Animal Lobby, before last year's election. He predicted that the compromise deal recent…
Alison Hardie. Nearly 700 officers from the Metropolitan Police struggled to keep control over nearly 2,300 protesters. Scotland, UK.
"The people need to know that we mean what we say, we want to be listened to and we want the town people to leave us alone in the country, to live our lives according to our moral decisions," one protester said. South Africa.…
Peter Clough. There was standing room only as more than 200 people packed into an extraordinary meeting of the Exmoor and District Deer Management Society, held to consider the future of red deer in the event of a ban.…
…sburgh columnist ridicules the British attempt to outlaw foxhunting based on their Robespierre certitude that pleasure must have a point, and nothing to do with compassion for foxes. He objects to legislation by people who consider everyday life the pursuit o…
…t study now suggests it's those farmers who support foxhunting and game-bird shooting who do most for wildlife conservation.…
Leader. The Guardian praised Alun Michael when he presented his original bill, and blames him now for trying to tinker with it when it returned to the Commons this week, thereby causing the procedural problem which triggered the vote to ban.…
Reactions from all sides, including MPs, peers and lobbying groups. Includes video clip.
Hamish Macdonell and Fraser Nelson. If Holyrood was supposed to be a testing arena from which Westminster MPs could learn, it has abjectly failed in the task. The MPs appear to have learnt nothing from the failed experiment in Scotland.…
Michael White, political editor. Official figures from the last vote on the issue show that a total ban, now backed by the Commons but defeated by 331 to 74 votes in March 2002, would have lost by 259 to 70 in the House of Lords even without the hereditaries' presence.…
The peers reinstated the plans for a registration system originally proposed by the government but later rejected in the House of Commons. The committee stages of the bill continue in the Lords on Wednesday next week.…
Nick Assinder, political correspondent. The ping pong years reviewed, with the expectation of the Parliament Act being used.
Asked if the government planned to use the Parliament Act, Lord Falconer told BBC One's Breakfast with Frost he could not reveal what would be in this month's Queen's Speech.…
Responding to a question at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Blair said: "As I said before ... we will resolve it this parliament."
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