Category Archives: Politics

BGA Progress Congratulated in the House of Commons

Westminster continues to signal its support for British Game Assurance (BGA) as the way forward for sustainable shooting. Most recently, last Friday, Greg Smith MP stood in the House of Commons to congratulate BGA on its work to introduce game to the NHS. Six NHS

Stop China buying up UK industry, demands Sir Iain Duncan Smith

THE Government should block China from acquiring strategic British industries, former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith says. He criticised Ministers’ failure to use legislation to stop a Chinese-owned firm buying Newport Wafer Fab, which is the country’s largest producer of silicon semiconductors that are

LABOUR MP’S U-TURN ON NET ZERO REFERENDUM

A PROMINENT Labour MP has said that he now no longer believes in a referendum on the Government’s strategy to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Grham Stringer, a leading eurosceptic, was due to appear with Nigel Farage last week to launch an anti-net

FORMER ARMY HEAD: “NAZANIN WAS USED A POLITICAL PAWN.”

THE FORMER head of the British Army has accused government officials of treating Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a political pawn. General Lord Dannatt said a debt of £400 million owed by the UK to pre-revolution Iran should have been paid off decades ago. He told GB