Keith Mann - The Animal Protection Party

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In January 2008 SPEAK Political—since renamed The Animal Protection Party—was set up to speak on behalf of animals and announced that Mann would be standing as an electoral candidate. He wrote on his website that the party would be fielding candidates in areas with MPs who, in the view of the movement, were supportive of companies who use animals, or of practices regarded as abusive by the animal rights movement, such as fox hunting; the point would be not so much to gain power but to have a voice in the electoral process. Mann stood in Oxford West and Abingdon against Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris in the 2010 general election; the area has been the focus of protests against the building of Oxford University's Biomedical Sciences Building. Mann received 143 votes or 0.3 percent; Harris lost the seat to Nicola Blackwood of the Conservative Party.

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