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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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A senior Tory has hailed Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s “dynamism”, calling it “relatively refreshing”. Andrew Griffith, a close ally of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, said the US administration has a got a “clear set of plans” and is willing to confront “some of the big challenges that all Western economies face.” The shadow… Read more »
Rishi Sunak has conceded that the “stop the boats” slogan the government adopted during his tenure as prime minister was “too stark” and “too binary”. The backbench Conservative MP said his focus on stopping migrants crossing the Channel was correct, however he said that the way the message was given to the public “wasn’t quite… Read more »
