Pro-hunt campaigners start a 24 hour vigil outside Parliament in London which is expected to last for several months.

The Prime Minister states that the defining trait of the social democratic view of community is that it should be based on solidarity; looking out for each other and being tolerant of our differences.

RWF Poole. The problems with releasing urban foxes in the countryside and the possible involvement of the RSPCA.

RWF Poole. A meeting in the north-east of hunt supporters with Alun Michael of Defra.

Guy Adams. Announcement of secret DEFRA meeting scheduled for 13 June with the Countryside Alliance, the parliamentary Middle Way Group and the Countdown to a Ban.

Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Miles Cooper, who worked for the Hunt Saboteurs Association and the League Against Cruel Sports in the 1990s, explains why a ban would increase the use of gun packs and therefore foxes would suffer more injuries.

Leader. The failure of trying to work with the government by relying on courteous relations as opposed to creating confrontational headlines.

Valerie Elliott. The Union of Country Sports Workers arranged for about 500 demonstrators, 40 on horseback, to support a Countryside Alliance vigil in Parliament Square against a ban on foxhunting.

The Real Countryside Alliance intends to use direct action to make its point.