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Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent. More than 100 MPs are ready to amend the bill into a
total ban when it reaches report stage, while senior MPs warn that a ban on hunting could be
shelved again unless the Government acts by the end of June.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,977781,00.html
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The Observer: Labour morality guru compares fox-hunting to rape
The Rev Andrew Linzey, Oxford professor of ethics, theology and animal welfare (post funded by the
IFAW) contends in a report for the Christian Socialist Movement that hunting is morally equivalent
to rape, child abuse and torture. Tony Blair, Tessa Jowell and Ben Bradshaw are members of the CSM.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,967929,00.html
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Ireland Online: UK MPs vote for ban on fox-hunting
Almost certainly the bill cannot be forced through the Lords against their wishes because it was
changed fundamentally in the way it was first presented to MPs. Mr Michael warned MPs tonight that
it would be "extremely difficult" with an amended bill to invoke the Parliament Act, the
device usually used to ignore the wishes of the Lords.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=73743818&p=737445z4
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ABC News: British Legislators Ban Fox Hunting
AP. The government had warned that such a House move might delay the bill indefinitely in the busy
parliamentary timetable, and that a total ban on hunting foxes with hounds would be unenforceable.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030630_1712.html
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The Scotsman: Industry gets on message at Royal Show
Alun Michael, minister for rural affairs, was confronted in Warwickshire at the show ring, a
"pants to prejudice" demonstration, and a "your countryside, your questions"
conference.
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/business.cfm?id=713312003
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Canada.com: British legislators vote for total ban on fox hunting with dogs
Ed Johnson. Reactions to the debate and vote in Commons.
http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=F8BA3178-9BDD-49D6-A03B-D05508C5EE70
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New York Times: Fox-Hunting With Dogs: M.P.'s Say No
Alan Cowell. The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly tonight to outlaw fox hunting with dogs, but
it remained unclear when - or if - the ban would be enforced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/international/europe/01FOX.html
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Sky News: 'Don't Ban Hunting' Call
Statements from Margaret Beckett, Alun Michael, Baroness Mallalieu and the Middle Way about the
pending hunting Bill.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-12361639,00.html
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Guardian: MPs warned against 'wrecking' foxhunting bill
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Margaret Beckett, the environment secretary, said that
defeat for the government's compromise proposals would jeopardise the entire hunting bill. Gerald
Kaufman, a veteran Labour MP and opponent of foxhunting, claims it's procedural blackmail to tell
MPs that they either have to let the bill through or risk losing a ban, and that he doesn't believe
Margaret Beckett wants to do that.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,987844,00.html
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Times: Labour MPs are urged to spare hunt Bill
MPs are being asked not to amend the Bill into a total ban, but don't appear likely to agree.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-729946,00.html
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Independent: Government warns anti-hunting MPs not to scupper Bill
Andrew Grice, political editor. There are growing signs that Labour backbenchers will defy Tony
Blair by backing an amendment that would toughen the Hunting Bill, even though this could delay its
passage through Parliament.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=420236
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BBC News: MPs back hunting ban
MPs have voted for an outright ban on hunting with dogs 362 to 154 after five hours of intense
Commons debate after which ministers dramatically decided to withdraw their own amendment. The bill
will now return to a committee of MPs to review the changes, and will not go to the House of Lords
until the autumn.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3030136.stm
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Telegraph: Ministers urge ban supporters not to wreck hunting Bill
Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. Ministers have stepped in to head off a rebellion by as
many as 140 MPs who have refused to accept a Government compromise that stops short of the outright
ban they have campaigned for.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/30/nhunt30.xml
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Independent: MPs set to reject compromise on hunting
Jo Dillon, deputy political editor. Anti-hunting MPs will tomorrow reject what the Government hoped
would be the decisive compromise on fox hunting, demanding instead a total ban on blood sports.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=419955
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BBC News: Hunting bill may be held up
A bill to ban hunting with dogs could be delayed if calls for an outright ban are agreed, Commons
Leader Peter Hain warns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3023762.stm
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Telegraph: Blair may oppose ban on all hunting
Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Tony Blair is expected to attend the Commons on Monday to
vote against a proposal to ban all hunting.
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/28/nhunt28.xml
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Telegraph: Anti-hunt fanatics
Leader. More delays will occur if a banning amendment is added to the current bill by the
anti-hunting fanatics who continue to pursue the subject relentlessly in defiance of the evidence.
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/06/28/dl2802.xml
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Telegraph: Backbench farce
John Jackson, Countryside Alliance Chairman. Questions the wisdom of a government that shifts the
foundation hospitals bill to make time for the foxhunting bill.
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/06/27/dt2702.xml
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Times: I'll hound ministers until they keep their hunt pledge
Gerald Kaufman. The MP gives his version of the history of the legislative attempts to ban hunting,
blaming all delays on the Labour government behaving in an unacceptable and devious fashion rather
than the Iraq war being more important.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-726877,00.html
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Times: Hain's check may leave backbenchers outfoxed
Political Briefing by Peter Riddell explaining how parliamentary procedure affects the hunting
bill, including what constitutes a Lords rejection of the Bill that has left the Commons, as
certified by the Speaker, and that a defective Bill could not be subject to the Parliament Act.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-726882,00.html
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Times: Delay to Hunting Bill infuriates Labour loyalists
Philip Webster, political editor. The latest news has convinced MPs that ministers are doing all in
their power to avoid having to apply the Parliament Act to the Hunting Bill. They believe that Tony
Blair has lost any appetite for pushing through a ban.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-726881,00.html
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Independent: Anti-hunt MPs attack Hain
Marie Woolf, chief political correspondent. Labour MPs reacted furiously yesterday to attempts to
bounce them into abandoning a campaign for a ban on fox-hunting.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=419371
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Guardian: Blair warns of 'all or nothing' hunt vote
Nicholas Watt and Michael White. Mr Blair made it clear that, if Labour MPs voted for the Banks
amendment, the hunting bill might have to undergo a second round of line-by-line examination in a
standing committee.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hunt/Story/0,2763,985868,00.html
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Cambridge News: Plans to restrict length of hunts
Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael announced a series of amendments to strengthen the legislation
in an attempt to head off a clash with backbench Labour MPs.
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=29839
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Times: Hunting nurse goes for love-hate relationship
Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Sarah Bell, an NHS nurse who also hunts and is the face of the
current CA poster campaign, would prefer that the Government work on NHS problems rather than
introduce laws for hunting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-723658,00.html
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BBC News: Nurse fronts pro-hunt campaign
A children's nurse from Warwickshire becomes the face of the pro-hunting lobby in their new poster
campaign of 'Now they hate her? Now they don't?'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3016246.stm
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Guardian: Kill and cure
Libby Brooks interviews nurse Sarah Bell about her role in the current Countryside Alliance
pro-hunting campaign.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,984544,00.html
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Telegraph: Fudges and foxes
Leader. Where does the duty of the peers lie when this dog's dinner of a Bill reaches their House?
According to recent scientific reports, when all the foxhounds have been put down and the business
of controlling foxes has passed mainly into the hands of those with shotguns and rifles, the
element of cruelty will not be eliminated but increased.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/06/21/dl2102.xml
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BBC News: MPs prepare anti-hunting push
Some 150 MPs, led by Labour's Tony Banks, are preparing to table an amendment to the government's
controversial hunting bill in a bid to ban the activity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3001296.stm
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Telegraph: Hunting Bill going back to Commons
Charles Clover, environment editor. Its reappearance late in the Parliamentary session raises the
possibility that it will not complete its passage through the Lords - where a majority of peers are
opposed to the Bill in its present form - before the end of the Parliamentary session.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/19/nhunt19.xml
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Guardian: No 10 to allow vote on outright ban on hunting
Patrick Wintour. Labour's chief whip, Hilary Armstrong, announced that the report stage on the
hunting bill will be held on Monday June 30. As many as 150 MPs are preparing to back an amendment
for an outright ban.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,980299,00.html
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Guardian: Hunting 'not key issue'
Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Only 2% of the public think hunting, either
preserving or banning, is the most important issue facing the government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,978911,00.html
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Telegraph: Labour gives in to RSPCA on hunting
Charles Clover, environment editor. The Government has secretly capitulated to all the demands of
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in an attempt to save the Hunting Bill
from being wrecked by its own backbenchers, according to a leaked letter from Alun Michael to John
Prescott.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/16/nrscpa16.xml
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Times: Closed season planned to end autumn fox cub hunts
Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. A leaked letter from Alun Michael, the Rural Affairs Minister,
to John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, describes plans to amend the Hunting Bill when it
returns to Commons.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,174-712366,00.html
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Telegraph: Shooting 'maims as many foxes as it kills'
Charles Clover, environment editor. According to research by five independent animal welfare
specialists published yesterday by the Middle Way, killing foxes with shotguns - the farmer's
preferred choice if hunting with dogs is banned - wounds as many foxes as it kills which makes a
ban detrimental to animal welfare.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/05/nfox05.xml
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