Angry responses to fox hunting bill
Angry responses to fox hunting bill
- 2000
- Financial Times 7 December 2000, 5(1) .
A bill to ban fox hunting with dogs was included in the Queen's speech. Sources indicate this will give MPs a free vote on three options: to introduce a total ban, regulations forcing hunters to obtain licences, or a voluntary system of self-regulation. Describes the immediate, and likely, responses of landowners and the Countryside Alliance.
FOX HUNTING
COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE
QUEENS SPEECH
COUNTRY LANDOWNERS ASSOCIATION
A bill to ban fox hunting with dogs was included in the Queen's speech. Sources indicate this will give MPs a free vote on three options: to introduce a total ban, regulations forcing hunters to obtain licences, or a voluntary system of self-regulation. Describes the immediate, and likely, responses of landowners and the Countryside Alliance.
FOX HUNTING
COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE
QUEENS SPEECH
COUNTRY LANDOWNERS ASSOCIATION