The BBC also has a long history of Conservative ties to the top jobs at the Corporation: former Conservative Cabinet Minister, Chris Patten, was Chairman of the BBC Trust from 2011-14; former chairman of the right-of-centre magazine The Spectator, Andrew Neil, hosted two of its leading politics programmes; and the current BBC Director General, Tim Davie, had previously been involved with the ...

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The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 later prohibited the use of the death penalty for anyone aged under 18 at the time of their offence. In April 1948, the House of Commons voted to suspend capital punishment for five years, but this decision was overturned by …

Employment Rights Act 1996 Summary. The below contains a summary of the original main provisions of the 1996 Employment Rights legislation, some of which have since been further tightened as per the amendments listed in the Section further below.

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