MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Exchequer secretary Kitty Ussher has resigned from the government after just ten days at the Treasury. She was forced to quit after revelations published in tomorrow’s Telegraph newspaper showed she had avoided capital gains tax by ‘flipping’ her Burnley home. Ms Ussher had been a minister at the Department of Work and… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The leader of the union Unison has told Labour it will not be receiving any more “blank cheques” in a sign of growing tension between the unions and the government. The announcement means 64 constituency Labour parties will have their funding withdrawn. Speaking at the union’s National Delegate Conference, general secretary Dave… Read more »
