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Tories launch pre-emptive strike on bed tax proposals
Tories take bed tax campaign to the sea

Proposals to impose an extra tax on Britain’s hotels and B&Bs could have a major impact on the country’s tourist industry and must be resisted, the Conservatives argued today. Shadow culture secretary Hugo Swire and his local government counterpart, Eric Pickles, are taking an ice-cream van along the south coast to warn of the dangers… Read more »

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New bill would make it easier to prosecute firms for gross negligence resulting in death
Corporate manslaughter bill finally published

A new law to ensure companies whose negligence leads to the death of employees or the public has today been published after nearly a decade of planning. The corporate manslaughter and corporate homicide bill intends to make it easier to bring to justice large firms whose management failure has resulted in death. It was first… Read more »