Party Politics
The High Court will consider a challenge to the laws requiring faith-based Christian religious education (RE) and collective worship in schools in Northern Ireland today. A non-religious family is mounting the legal challenge arguing the exclusively Christian nature of RE and worship violates their human rights. The case is being supported by Northern Ireland Humanists…. Read more »
Improvement to firearms licence condition welcomed by BASC Northern Ireland The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed the introduction of a firearms certificate condition that will allow the licence holder to shoot any lawful quarry on land where they have the authority to shoot. The condition known… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Labour needs to convince voters it will not automatically raise taxation and increase spending when in power, Douglas Alexander has said. The party’s general election campaign coordinator told a fringe event at Labour’s autumn conference in Manchester that centre-left parties across Europe needed to be “far more effective” in justifying the need… Read more »
By Ian Dunt Alan Johnson launched a staunch defence of the Labour government’s track record on civil liberties today, in a speech which all but removed him for the running for a shadow Cabinet job. In his last conference speech as shadow home secretary, he refused to adopt the views of his new leader, who… Read more »
