Day: February 14, 2018

    In an address in which Foreign Secretary outlined his vision for the country’s departure from the EU, he also quipped the right deal on aviation and on visa-free travel would allow Britons ever more intensively to go on cheapo flights to stag parties in ancient cities. Mr Johnson said: As I have just discovered we have more than a million who go to Thailand every year, where according to our superb consular services they get up to the most eye-popping things. If we get the right deal on aviation and on visa-free travel both of which are in our mutual interest this expansion of UK tourism will continue, not just beyond the EU, but within the EU itself; and we will continue ever more intensively to go on cheapo flights to stag parties in ancient cities, meet interesti...

    The party’s 50-point animal welfare draft policy also sets out plans to strengthen the Hunting Act to prevent illegal fox hunting, and enshrine the principle that animals are sentient in law. The plans, backed by conservation charity WWF, will be seen as an attempt to wrestle back political ground after the Conservative government announced a series of animal-friendly policies. The proposals also include exploring the potential for elderly and disabled people who move into care homes to keep their pets. Other measures proposed by Labour include mandatory labelling of domestic and imported meat including country of origin and production and slaughter methods, as it seeks to set out its position as the party of animal welfare. Under the plans, landlords would be con...