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Lib Dem MP Norman Baker has called for an end of all animal testing taking place in the United Kingdom.

Baker, the minister in charge of regulating animal experiments in the UK, has been a long time anti-vivisection campaigner.

Explaining that a complete ban ‘would not happen overnight’ he added that he believes the government was ‘moving in the right direction’.

The scientific community says research on live animals is vital to understanding disease and has resulted in new vaccines and also treatments for cancer, Parkinson’s disease, asthma and HIV – but opponents say it is cruel and pointless, as alternative research methods are available.