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Hunting Bill
Conservative peers in the Lords are preparing to amend the Hunting Bill to allow foxhunting under licence in a move designed to depict MPs as extremists - and inflict maximum embarrassment on Tony Blair.
Lord Strathclyde, the Tory leader in the Lords, said on Sunday he was "convinced" peers would not reject the bill when it returned to the Lords on Tuesday, but would instead scrutinise it and send it back - perhaps in the form originally presented by the government minister Alun Michael, which proposed a regulated hunt.
Stakeholder Response: Countryside Alliance
A spokesman for the Countryside Alliance said: "The prime minister confirmed last month that the bill to licence hunting which it brought forward last year 'remains a perfectly sensible compromise'.
"The Countryside Alliance, whilst it believes the legislation remains open to improvement, supports the plan to amend the bill back to the government's original licensing proposal.
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