Labour Animal Welfare Society (LAWS) is affiliated with the Labour Party as an official Socialist Society. We are a home for the many Labour members passionate about animal welfare and we support the Labour Party on understanding the key issues for animal welfare.
If you’re a Labour member and want to join LAWS, you can do so here. This allows you to support our work and get involved with our efforts to champion animal welfare.
Labour has a proud record on animal welfare. From banning fur farming and fox hunting to the Animal Welfare Act, I am proud to have been part of a brave and reforming government. I want to lead a government that matches that ambition. Animal welfare is a moral cause. We also understand even better, today, …
The Labour Animal Welfare Society (LAWS) is pleased to endorse Andy Burnham to become Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister. Whilst LAWS does not formally nominate candidates in Labour leadership elections, a long-standing policy, we believe that Andy is the right person to bring our party together and to deliver the party’s electoral …
Labour promised the biggest boost to animal welfare in a generation. Now we need to make sure that promise is delivered. Please write to your local Labour MP today and ask them to raise animal welfare with Andy Burnham and his team. Defra’s Animal Welfare Strategy must be reaffirmed, implemented in full, and backed with …
As part of the government’s world-leading Animal Welfare Strategy, announced in December, DEFRA has launched a consultation on banning trail hunting which closes on 18 June. A ban on trail hunting will deliver the party’s pledge to end this practice, as committed to in the 2024 Labour Party Manifesto. The government is interested in responses from organisations and …
