Ministers seek deal to save animal testing imports being taken over by military
"Ministers are urgently trying to broker a deal to allow the import of animals for testing to continue saying it would be a "pity" if they ended up having to be brought in on RAF aircraft because of pressure from activists."
Science minister David Willetts admitted scientists were facing a "serious problem" and said the Government had been trying to hammer out an agreement between the research and transport industries to allow the movement of the animals to go on.
He said: "It would be a pity if we ended up saying that this process of transporting animals had to be nationalised and taken over by the military. I very much hope that does not arise."
It could be nationalised without being done by the chaps in light blue, surely?