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MPs vote to decriminalise abortions for women

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 »

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Top ten political gaffes of 2013:  2 - A Lib Dem 'press officer'
Top ten political gaffes of 2013: 2 – A Lib Dem ‘press officer’

The Liberal Democrats had just shaken up their press office team when a monstrous howler of an error took place. Not much was actually happening at the party’s autumn conference in Glasgow, so it came as quite a surprise to the journalists gathered in the city to find the Lib Dems’ secret ‘lines to take’ document emailed around.

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Nick Clegg: Stuck in the middle
Analysis: Clegg’s flawed Labour attack

There’s not much that’s original about Nick Clegg’s latest assault on Labour – but as 2015 approaches, the context for his salvoes of contempt are shifting.