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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 parliamentary inquiry into the professional standards of Britain’s bankers is set to go ahead, despite an afternoon of acrimony across the despatch boxes between George Osborne and Ed Balls.
The tension and speculation over who is to blame over the rate-rigging Barclays scandal with the banks and Bank of England heated up today as the chancellor, George Osborne claimed his predecessors, Gordon Brown’s Labour government and minister Ed Balls were “clearly involved”.
