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MPs back campaign to end greyhound cruelty with calls to ban new racecourses being built; The campaign aims to improve the standard of care of greyhounds across the UK before, during their racing careers.

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Byline: By, Rebecca Astill

A campaign to end greyhound cruelty has gained huge support from a cross-party group of MPs in recent weeks.

The campaign, simply titled "End Greyhound Cruelty", is calling for a statutory five per cent levy to be paid by all bookmakers to go towards the care and wellbeing of all racing dogs, and a parliamentary debate in response to the 2020 petition that gained over 100,000 signatures to ban dog racing by The Alliance Against Greyhound Racing.

It also wants to improve transparency within the industry by ending the self regulation of the Greyhound Board of Great Britain, and wants to implement full life tracking of all dogs, and prohibit the building of new racecourses in the UK.

Its website is full of shocking figures, like the fact "a UK racing greyhound dies or is destroyed every 12 hours" and "in 2018, 324 greyhounds were destroyed for financial reasons" instead of being rehomed or medically treated.

The campaign is lobbying policy makers to bring stronger regulations to the industry.

End Greyhound Cruelty currently has the support of various MPs including Dr Lisa Cameron, Tracey Crouch, Caroline Lucas, Marion Fellows and Jim Shannon.

The campaign has tabled a parliamentary Early Day Motion on the welfare of greyhounds racing in the UK, thanks to Dr Lisa Cameron, MP for...

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