Constitutional Reform
Yesterday the Government announced proposals to introduce outdoor civil marriages at approved premises on a permanent basis and to also introduce outdoor religious marriages, but failed to make any similar reforms to legally recognise humanist marriages. Humanists UK has urged the Government to act now to legally recognise humanist marriages without delay. Humanists UK Chief… Read more »
Yesterday, the Government published its long-awaited proposals on reforming the Human Rights Act. If passed into law, these reforms will have a devastating impact on the fundamental rights of humanists. The Government has announced it wants to reform section 3 of the Act to severely curtail the ability of public authorities and the courts to ‘read… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Support for electoral reform appears to be on the rise with 78% of voters backing a replacement of first-past-the-post with a more accurate system. But the ComRes poll for the Independent threw up a seemingly contradictory finding, revealing that voters remained suspicious of hung parliaments and the closed-door negotiations which go with… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Nick Clegg has given his strongest hint yet about the real reason Danny Alexander was chosen to succeed David Laws at the Treasury. The deputy prime minister, who insisted yesterday the sole reason for the appointment was that his former chief of staff was “extremely gifted”, told the Today programme that Mr… Read more »
