Conservatives  Against Fox Hunting’s Blue Hare campaign would like to clarify our position on the new code for management of hares as drawn up by the British Association of Shooting & Conservation- BASC in March 2013. We have strong objections to the code. We consider it is completely  inappropriate that the code  has been drawn up by shooting, [...]

  We celebrate the anniversary of the Hunting Act 2004 on February 18th. The country is in the worst economic recession for decades and it is deeply regrettable that the Coalition leadership continue to offer a free vote on repealing the ban on hunting with dogs. Poll after poll demonstrates that the majority of the [...]

 It was good to personally speak and shake hands both with both the Deputy Prime Minister- Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Ed Milliband , Leader of the Labour party at the same time last week. They both said that they had heard of our work and there were big smiles!   We [...]

ANY attempt to bring back fox hunting would be defeated by an alliance of Labour and Lib Dem MPs, writes ­Stuart Winter. The Government is committed to a free vote on overturning the ban on hunting with hounds but Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has ruled out one being held in the near future. According to [...]

David Cameron’s local Heythrop hunt guilty of illegal fox-hunting The Prime Minister’s former local hunt was fined after admitting illegal fox-hunting with dogs. David Cameron, the MP for Witney, has previously ridden with the Heythrop Hunt, which pleaded guilty to fox-hunting. The hunt pleaded guilty to four charges of “unlawfully hunting a wild fox with [...]