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Surprise ally unearthed for anti-blood sports campaigners

Campaigners against fox hunting have found an unlikely ally: Winston Churchill.

Documents found in the National Archives show that the former Tory prime minister supported attempts to stop British troops fox hunting in occupied Germany after the Second World War.

The commander of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Sir John Harding, wrote to the government to ask for help in attempting to stop the activity being banned.

It had been banned under the Nazis who, to the continuing bafflement of many historians, said torturing animals was beneath them, the Guardian reported.

But it was reinstated after the Allied forces occupied Germany, much to the pleasure of many British officers....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)