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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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The government’s employment record is the “best in history”, Gordon Brown told MPs today. The prime minister was addressing the Commons after the latest employment statistics showed a total of 29.36 million people are now in work. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the number of people claiming unemployment benefit has fallen for… Read more »
The New Deal has helped someone off benefits and into work every three minutes since it was aunched a decade ago. As the New Deal marks its ten-year anniversary the government has moved to defend its flagship unemployment programme, claiming it has helped more than 1.8 million people find work. The often-criticised New Deal combines… Read more »
