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MICHAEL GOVE has become embroiled in a row over whether animals should still be treated as “sentient beings” after Britain leaves the EU.
The Environment Secretary insisted yesterday that there will not be a “gap” in animal welfare protections following Brexit, promising “stronger protection written into law.”
His assertion — widely seen as a U-turn — came after Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas sought to make an amendment to Brexit legislation, which would have brought EU animal protections into domestic law.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
