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The Government has today brought forward a Bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Humanists UK has welcomed this move as long overdue reform. But it has also said that the next step should be to remove the 26 Church of England bishops, known as the Lords Spiritual, who also have an automatic right… Read more »
Alistair Carmichael MP spoke of the need for building consensus with rural communities at BASC’s rural reception at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton this week. Mr Carmichael, the newly appointed chair of the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee, told guests at the packed event that his party would be a significant… Read more »
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Unrest across North Africa and the Middle East could set the peace process back by decades, William Hague has warned.
By politics.co.uk staff Foreign secretary William Hague is meeting Tunisia’s new interim government. His visit, coming in the wake of mass protests which ousted former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power, is the first stage of the Foreign Office’s bid to bolster the north African country’s fledgling democracy. New UK funding supporting reform… Read more »
