Fresh hopes for ban on hunting trophies

MP's renewed bid to stop sick imports

- BEN GLAZE

HOPE is growing that a bill to ban trophy hunters bringing sick souvenirs back to Britain can be revived.

Labour MP John Spellar plans to reintroduce legislation which would block tourists returning home with prizes such as animal skins, severed heads and carcasses after shoots abroad.

The Mirror this week revealed animal campaigners' fury at a British company selling reindeer shoots in Norway.

Activists pointed out that if the Tories had made good on a 2019 election promise, hunters would be banned from bringing reindeer antlers to Britain.