Party Politics
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 One of Ed Miliband’s new shadow ministers has been cautioned by police for tweeting postal vote results before the polls had closed on election day. Kerry McCarthy, who has since been appointed to a junior role in the shadow Cabinet with an economic brief, used Twitter to publish postal voting figures in… Read more »
By Peter Wozniak Ken Clarke has risked awakening the anger of eurosceptic Conservatives by stating Britain would sign to an EU directive aimed at protecting people arrested whilst abroad. The directive itself is relatively uncontroversial. It makes it a requirement for foreign police officers to provide details both written and verbal to British citizens of… Read more »