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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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Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of prioritising tax cuts to help with the Conservative re-election campaign over helping families through the cost-of-living crisis. During a noisy Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour’s leader charged Johnson with cynically timing an income tax cut in 2024, when the next general election is due to take place. “That’s not… Read more »
Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer became embroiled in a heated clash over the sacking of 800 P&O Ferries staff, as the prime minister vowed to take “action” against the firm. Starmer raised the temperature in the House of Commons as he took the government to task over not preventing the sackings of 800 British workers,… Read more »
