Important vote tomorrow night on Offensive Weapons Bill on whether to impose total ban on high velocity rifles. This had been recommended by police. Government had originally accepted police advice. But there was then a rebellion by 74 Tory and DUP MPs - ...
..., and Labour's Kate Hoey - who put down an amendment allowing continued possession of these highly destructive guns, so long as they were stored securely. However @sajidjavid has gone further than rebels actually wanted and is trying to remove all reference to the rifles...
...from the bill! Which seems extraordinary from a government whose mantra is that it wants to crack down on violent crime. Labour, unsurprsingly, will now oppose Javid's amendments and try to restore the bill to its original intent of prohibiting these dangerous guns...
...Very odd perhaps that @theresa_may has surrendered on this guns issue to large numbers of her own Brexiter and DUP MPs who are working to destroy the most important work of her life, namely her Brexit deal with the EU.
