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Humanists are celebrating a partial victory after the Department for Education announced it will keep restrictions on faith-based admissions criteria in new state-funded free schools in England – the so-called ‘50% cap’. However, Humanists UK, which led the campaign against these proposals, has said it is certain that new schools with 100% selective admissions policies will nevertheless… Read more »
MPs from the Labour Party, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and Green Party have come together to back a new amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to allow those with neurodegenerative illnesses to access assisted dying when they have twelve months or fewer to live, rather than six, as currently stipulated in the… Read more »
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Outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson today told MPs he will be leaving office “with my head held high” During the first PMQ’s since his resignation, and one that got off to a very raucous start, Johnson reiterated his stance on the success of his tenure. “It’s perfectly true that I leave not at a time… Read more »
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner have been cleared of breaching Covid rules at a 2021 event in Durham. The announcement comes after Rayner said today that the party would table a vote of no confidence in the government in a bid to oust Boris Johnson from No 10z A Labour… Read more »
