Telegraph: If Labour bans foxhunting, civil disobedience would be justified

Robert Skidelsky, Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University and a cross bench peer in the House of Lords, explains why the law would be invalid.

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ic Cheshire Online: Duke okays hunt rally

The Duke of Westminster is to host a rally on Declaration Day which will encourage peaceful civil disobedience if a hunting ban is passed into law.

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ic Liverpool: Hunters take to streets in protest

The fox hunting fraternity of Cheshire, Merseyside, Manchester and North Wales will take to the streets at Eaton Aerodrome on November 1 in a bid to stop hunting being banned.

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The Observer: The wrong fox

Leader. Considers the Bill to ban hunting with dogs "one of the most hypocritical Bills of modern time" and that if animal welfare were truly the aim of the Bill, the Government would be addressing the far worse (yet legal) abuse of millions of birds and animals on UK farms.

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The Observer: Blair's ally defends right to hunt foxes

Kamal Ahmed, political editor. Waheed Alli, millionaire Labour peer and friend of Peter Mandelson, explains why he will break with his party's traditional position this week and declare any ban on hunting to be an illiberal act based on intolerance, rather than a desire to tackle animal cruelty.

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Telegraph: Whitty fury as peers savage hunting Bill

Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Lord Whitty, the environment minister in charge of the Hunting Bill, announced that the Government would not willingly accept any of the 100-plus amendments tabled by backbench peers. Said peers were not impressed.

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Guardian Unlimited Politics: Peers scent blood as they go in for the kill

Simon Hoggart's sketch of the Hunting Bill being returned to its original form in the House of Lords, illustrated by peers describing their own unusual lives.

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Guardian Unlimited Politics: Peers reverse ban on hunting

Sarah Hall, political correspondent. A cross party amendment to the Hunting Bill allowing registered hunting to continue was passed by 261 votes to 49 after vociferous debate between the peers and the junior government minister Lord Whitty.

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CNN: England fox hunting ban reversed

The House of Lords on Tuesday reversed a complete ban on fox hunting in legislation approved by the House of Commons, and sent it back to the Commons for another vote.

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BBC News: Lords rejects hunting ban

The peers reinstated the plans for a registration system originally proposed by the government but later rejected in the House of Commons. The committee stages of the bill continue in the Lords on Wednesday next week.

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BBC News: Hunt deadlock looms

Nick Assinder, political correspondent. The ping pong years reviewed, with the expectation of the Parliament Act being used.

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Sun: Peers vote to save hunts

Peers rejected the complete ban on fox hunting backed by MPs and voted for a licensing system for hunts.

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BBC News: Lords reject coursing ban

Environment Minister Lord Whitty accused peers of "destroying the basis" of the bill. Mike Hobday, of the League Against Cruel Sports, said a House of Lords decision rejecting a ban had killed any hope of compromise on the government's Hunting Bill. As if.

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Telegraph: Lords kill off Hunting Bill

The Hunting Bill, which MPs had amended in June to ban fox hunting in England and Wales, was effectively killed off in the Lords after it became clear the Government had not allowed them sufficient time to debate it.

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Western Morning News: Lords reject hunting ban

Lord Whitty claimed the Lords wrecked the Bill by removing the coursing ban. Alun Michael had earlier claimed that Commons had created a "wrecked, unenforceable and unworkable" Bill by making it a complete ban.

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