Paddy votes to ban hunting

At a debate beseiged by pro-hunt protestors, Paddy Tipping was one of 356 MPs who voted to reintroduce a bill for a total ban on hunting with dogs. This would come into force in 2006 to allow time for existing hunts to be wound up.

Previously the bill has been overturned by the House of Lords, but today Alun Michael MP specifically threatened the use of the Parliament Act, a long-disused piece of legislation which would enable the Commons to overrule them.