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Green party would consider banning Grand National, suggests Natalie Bennett | Politics | The Guardian: "The Green party would consider banning the Grand National and other horse and greyhound races as part of an animal protection drive should it form the next government, its leader Natalie Bennett has suggested.

A promise to review such events will appear in the party’s manifesto, which is due to be released on Tuesday, she said.

“What we want to do is a whole range of issues dealing with animal protection. I can give you an exclusive preview of our manifesto which says we want a complete review of all horse and greyhound racing,” Bennett told the Andrew Marr show on BBC television.

She added: “There’s a whole range of broader issues around animal protection here that we really need to talk about, which is things like the badger cull, [and] we want to ban driven grouse shooting.”

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She added that “banning snares of animals and also tackling factory farming” were at the forefront of her thinking."



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