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Fake news regarding MPs vote on animals rights?

Conservatives were criticised after reports, shared by campaigners and celebrities online, that its MPs had voted to reject the idea that animals can feel pain, in a vote addressing their welfare after Brexit.

Looking at claims the party has been a victim of fake news, Jo Coburn heard from Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, Green Party's home affairs spokesperson Shahrar Ali, and journalists Melanie Phillips and Rafael Behr.

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