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AWP Holds Third Demo outside Manchester Airport Protesting Involvement in Animal Testing

Animal Welfare Party has today held its third peaceful demonstration outside Manchester Airport protesting against its involvement in the trade of flying live animals into the UK for use in animal testing.

Protestors braved the January wind, rain and hail to stand with banners reading ‘Animals Shipped to Testing Labs Through Manchester Airport’ and ‘Manchester Airport Complicit in Animal Testing’.

The demo came as a related petition calling on Manchester Airport Group to stop accepting Air France animal cargo flights bringing animals such as dogs and primates …

AWP Celebrates 2021 Local Election Results

Animal Welfare Party is celebrating some of its best results to date in the London Mayoral and Assembly Elections and in Lothian Region in the Scottish Parliament Elections. 

In the London Mayoral Election, AWP’s Vanessa Hudson received 16,826 first preference votes and 63,619 second preference votes.

In the London-wide Assembly election, AWP stood a party list of six candidates and received 44,667 votes from across the capital (1.7% of the vote) – ranking seventh overall and gaining almost 19,000 more votes than the party received in this …