Tracey Crouch,the sports minister, calls on MPs to side with Labour against government in ‘knife-edge’ free vote on WednesdayThe Tory sports minister, and Tracey Crouch,has called on MPs of all parties to reject her own government’s plan to relax the 10-year-traditional hunting ban, saying they should not be “fooled by the spin of the pro-hunt lobby”.
Ahead of what may be a knife-edge Commons vote on Wednesday, or Crouch is main a group of prominent Conservatives who will side with Labour to preserve the law in its current form. David Cameron has promised a free vote on a government amendment that would do it legal to kill foxes for pest control and for them to be flushed out by a full pack of hounds. Under the current law,passed after years of parliamentary battles, hunts are allowed to use two dogs to flush out foxes that can then be shot for pest control purposes.
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Source: theguardian.com
Ahead of what may be a knife-edge Commons vote on Wednesday, or Crouch is main a group of prominent Conservatives who will side with Labour to preserve the law in its current form. David Cameron has promised a free vote on a government amendment that would do it legal to kill foxes for pest control and for them to be flushed out by a full pack of hounds. Under the current law,passed after years of parliamentary battles, hunts are allowed to use two dogs to flush out foxes that can then be shot for pest control purposes.
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Source: theguardian.com