A bill to ban hunting with dogs could be delayed if calls for an outright ban are agreed, Commons Leader Peter Hain warns.

MPs have voted for an outright ban on hunting with dogs 362 to 154 after five hours of intense Commons debate after which ministers dramatically decided to withdraw their own amendment. The bill will now return to a committee of MPs to review the changes, and will not go to the House of Lords until the autumn.

Some 150 MPs, led by Labour's Tony Banks, are preparing to table an amendment to the government's controversial hunting bill in a bid to ban the activity.

A children's nurse from Warwickshire becomes the face of the pro-hunting lobby in their new poster campaign of 'Now they hate her? Now they don't?'.

Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael announced a series of amendments to strengthen the legislation in an attempt to head off a clash with backbench Labour MPs.

Ed Johnson. Reactions to the debate and vote in Commons.

Nicholas Watt and Michael White. Mr Blair made it clear that, if Labour MPs voted for the Banks amendment, the hunting bill might have to undergo a second round of line-by-line examination in a standing committee.

Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent. Only 2% of the public think hunting, either preserving or banning, is the most important issue facing the government.

Libby Brooks interviews nurse Sarah Bell about her role in the current Countryside Alliance pro-hunting campaign.

Nicholas Watt, political correspondent. Margaret Beckett, the environment secretary, said that defeat for the government's compromise proposals would jeopardise the entire hunting bill. Gerald Kaufman, a veteran Labour MP and opponent of foxhunting, claims it's procedural blackmail to tell MPs that they either have to let the bill through or risk losing a ban, and that he doesn't believe Margaret Beckett wants to do that.

Patrick Wintour. Labour's chief whip, Hilary Armstrong, announced that the report stage on the hunting bill will be held on Monday June 30. As many as 150 MPs are preparing to back an amendment for an outright ban.

Marie Woolf, chief political correspondent. Labour MPs reacted furiously yesterday to attempts to bounce them into abandoning a campaign for a ban on fox-hunting.

Andrew Grice, political editor. There are growing signs that Labour backbenchers will defy Tony Blair by backing an amendment that would toughen the Hunting Bill, even though this could delay its passage through Parliament.

Jo Dillon, deputy political editor. Anti-hunting MPs will tomorrow reject what the Government hoped would be the decisive compromise on fox hunting, demanding instead a total ban on blood sports.

Almost certainly the bill cannot be forced through the Lords against their wishes because it was changed fundamentally in the way it was first presented to MPs. Mr Michael warned MPs tonight that it would be "extremely difficult" with an amended bill to invoke the Parliament Act, the device usually used to ignore the wishes of the Lords.

Alan Cowell. The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly tonight to outlaw fox hunting with dogs, but it remained unclear when - or if - the ban would be enforced.

Statements from Margaret Beckett, Alun Michael, Baroness Mallalieu and the Middle Way about the pending hunting Bill.

Leader. More delays will occur if a banning amendment is added to the current bill by the anti-hunting fanatics who continue to pursue the subject relentlessly in defiance of the evidence.

John Jackson, Countryside Alliance Chairman. Questions the wisdom of a government that shifts the foundation hospitals bill to make time for the foxhunting bill.

Andrew Sparrow, political correspondent. Tony Blair is expected to attend the Commons on Monday to vote against a proposal to ban all hunting.

Leader. Where does the duty of the peers lie when this dog's dinner of a Bill reaches their House? According to recent scientific reports, when all the foxhounds have been put down and the business of controlling foxes has passed mainly into the hands of those with shotguns and rifles, the element of cruelty will not be eliminated but increased.

Charles Clover, environment editor. Its reappearance late in the Parliamentary session raises the possibility that it will not complete its passage through the Lords - where a majority of peers are opposed to the Bill in its present form - before the end of the Parliamentary session.

Charles Clover, environment editor. The Government has secretly capitulated to all the demands of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in an attempt to save the Hunting Bill from being wrecked by its own backbenchers, according to a leaked letter from Alun Michael to John Prescott.

Benedict Brogan, political correspondent. Ministers have stepped in to head off a rebellion by as many as 140 MPs who have refused to accept a Government compromise that stops short of the outright ban they have campaigned for.

Charles Clover, environment editor. According to research by five independent animal welfare specialists published yesterday by the Middle Way, killing foxes with shotguns - the farmer's preferred choice if hunting with dogs is banned - wounds as many foxes as it kills which makes a ban detrimental to animal welfare.

Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent. More than 100 MPs are ready to amend the bill into a total ban when it reaches report stage, while senior MPs warn that a ban on hunting could be shelved again unless the Government acts by the end of June.

The Rev Andrew Linzey, Oxford professor of ethics, theology and animal welfare (post funded by the IFAW) contends in a report for the Christian Socialist Movement that hunting is morally equivalent to rape, child abuse and torture. Tony Blair, Tessa Jowell and Ben Bradshaw are members of the CSM.

Alun Michael, minister for rural affairs, was confronted in Warwickshire at the show ring, a "pants to prejudice" demonstration, and a "your countryside, your questions" conference.

Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. A leaked letter from Alun Michael, the Rural Affairs Minister, to John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, describes plans to amend the Hunting Bill when it returns to Commons.

Philip Webster, political editor. The latest news has convinced MPs that ministers are doing all in their power to avoid having to apply the Parliament Act to the Hunting Bill. They believe that Tony Blair has lost any appetite for pushing through a ban.

Political Briefing by Peter Riddell explaining how parliamentary procedure affects the hunting bill, including what constitutes a Lords rejection of the Bill that has left the Commons, as certified by the Speaker, and that a defective Bill could not be subject to the Parliament Act.

Valerie Elliott, countryside editor. Sarah Bell, an NHS nurse who also hunts and is the face of the current CA poster campaign, would prefer that the Government work on NHS problems rather than introduce laws for hunting.

Gerald Kaufman. The MP gives his version of the history of the legislative attempts to ban hunting, blaming all delays on the Labour government behaving in an unacceptable and devious fashion rather than the Iraq war being more important.

MPs are being asked not to amend the Bill into a total ban, but don't appear likely to agree.