<strong>Labour backs fieldsports</strong>
Would you like to appear on our site? We offer sponsored articles and advertising to put you in front of our readers. Find out more.Shooting and fishing were both praised by Labour MPs at a rural reception hosted by BASC and the Angling Trust at the party?s conference last week. Gavin Shuker MP, shadow minister for environment, food and rural affairs backed the sports, saying: ?We must protect our rural economy and help to promote awareness of the benefits that shooting and fishing bring to it.?
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