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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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By Alex Stevenson David Miliband has insisted British leaders did not indulge in “vainglorious boasting” after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Appearing before Sir John Chilcot’s panel in central London, the foreign secretary said that complacent back-slapping was “shattered pretty quickly” as problems with post-war planning emerged. Seven years after a US-led coalition ousted Saddam… Read more »
Welcome to politics.co.uk’s as-it-happens page. Here, you can keep up to date with speeches, debates and major political events in real time. This event is now over, but you can see how it happened below. By Ian Dunt Brown at Chilcot as-it-happens
