Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent. Labour backbenchers will mount a major push for a ban on hunting with support from a carrot-dangling Government.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1194311,00.html

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Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael has risked the wrath of his party by insisting the future of hunting is not a major issue for the public.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/newspolitics/tm_objectid=14172706&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=hunting-not-a-major-issue--says-michael-name_page.html

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Nicholas Watt, political correspondent, reports on the legal battle between Cherie Blair's Matrix and the Countryside Alliance about the applicability of the European Convention on Human Rights to hunting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/apr/19/hunting.immigrationpolicy

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Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Sources close to Downing Street and Defra hint that Mr Blair is planning to deal with hunting after the European and local elections, but before the summer recess.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1458951/Blair-pressed-to-ban-hunting-before-summer.html

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Peter Oborne explains why and how the PM is likely to try again to ban hunting, in a possible election year, in an attempt to reconnect with his almost disenfranchised Labour MPs.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/12134/the-last-act-of-a-desperate-prime-minister-to-bring-back-the-hunting-bill.thtml

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Oonagh Blackman, deputy political editor. A senior Cabinet source claims the Bill will be in the Commons before June to help with the coming elections.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/2004/04/09/fox-hunting-bill-by-june-89520-14132148/

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Labour MPs support the government's decision to use the Parliament Act, if necessary, to force through a law to ban hunting with dogs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1937260.stm

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Daniel Johnson in Madrid. Why the English should be as tolerant of foxhunting as the Spanish are of bullfighting.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/04/17/do1702.xml

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Helen Gibson. A run-through of the animal rights arguments for banning hunting proving that it's not about preventing cruelty, it's class war.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901020401-219940,00.html

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Anne Perkins and Patrick Wintour. Alun Michael claims he doesn't want a bill representing the views of one interest group, but a practical and effective piece of legislation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/apr/01/hunting.immigrationpolicy

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