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New online tool to defend the Hunting Act

The Conservatives may come to regret promising to overturn the ban on hunting with dogs. The Fox in Parliament blog reports:

Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for DEFRA, has signalled Labour’s determination to support the hunting ban over David Cameron’s pledge to give parliamentary time to scraping the law. Hilary said:

“The Conservatives know that the public don’t want to see the ban repealed, so they wont be talking about this in the run up to the election – which makes it all the more important that we do.”

Labour has now launched a new online tool that enables members of the public to automatically send an e-mail to their MP and also Labour candidates to find out their views over hunting.

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