Liberal Democrats

If a bigot can’t be PM, why should one be allowed to become an MP?

September 7, 2017
Archbishop Cranmer
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Jacob Rees-Mogg walks into a TV studio. Grand Inquisitor Piers Torquemorgan has wheeled out his rack; his beatific assistant Susanna Reid has greased up the Judas cradle. Heresy is not merely suspected, but presumed. The heretic must be exposed; his…

You cannot “draw the poison from Brexit” without extracting deception from the human heart

June 25, 2017
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'Where there is no vision, the people perish', the Archbishop of Canterbury writes in the Mail on Sunday, reminding is that the Authorised Version still resonates down the ages, and…

It’s not that Christians can’t lead political parties; it’s that Evangelical Christians can’t lead the Liberal Democrats

June 15, 2017
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"To be a political leader...and to live as a committed Christian, to hold faithfully to the Bible's teaching, has felt impossible for me," said Tim Farron as he resigned as…

Hounding Tim Farron about gay sex deflects from LibDem vote to abolish faith schools

May 2, 2017
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While the Christian leader of the Liberal Democrats was being harassed and hounded day after day by liberal metropolitan journalists to pronounce on whether he believed homosexual acts were sin…

Right to Life: where do the Party Leaders currently stand?

April 23, 2017
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Lord Alton has done a useful (and very interesting) bit of digging on how the current party leaders have voted over recent years on a series of Right to Life…

Batley and Spen by-election: you don't respect a murdered MP by suspending democracy

June 19, 2016
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"Following the tragic killing of Labour MP Jo Cox, the Conservative Party has decided not to contest the forthcoming by-election as a mark of respect to a much-loved and…

The case for House of Lords reform has become unarguable

July 29, 2015
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We will ensure that the House of Lords fulfils its valuable role as a chamber of legislative scrutiny and revision While we still see a strong case for introducing…

House of Lords pleads for the freedom of religion and belief

July 22, 2015
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With a Conservative majority government in place for the next five years we won’t need to worry about any potential reforms to House of Lords for the time being.…

Tim Farron's Christian faith becomes an object of media scorn

July 19, 2015
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There are plenty of people who think that you shouldn’t mix faith and politics. For some, such as the National Secular Society, they have made it a mission to…

The Divine Right of HM Revenue and Customs

July 13, 2015
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One expected a tactical Conservative prime minister leading a pragmatic Conservative Party in an expedient Liberal-Conservative coalition to propose or perform the occasional un-conservative thing. It was reasonably politic,…

Does any Labour leadership candidate have something positive to say about Christianity?

July 1, 2015
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Now that the Liberal Democrats have been left to their own devices to elect a new leader, the attention inevitably turns to Labour and their continued attempts to find…

Norman Lamb's tactics prove only Farron deserves to be LibDem leader

June 27, 2015
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By this weekend 61,000 LibDem members should have received their leadership ballot papers. It’s a straight shootout with the prize of either dragging the party back from the precipice…

This is how the 'Christian vote' now looks

June 16, 2015
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During the run up to May’s General Election, we had a few polls that attempted to gauge what the Christian vote would look like. Carrying out such an exercise…

Tim Farron 'clarifies' his Christian convictions in pursuit of LibDem leadership

May 23, 2015
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There is no doubt that Christian representation in Parliament came out well in this General Election. A handful of prominent Christians including Simon Hughes, Douglas Alexander and Jim Murphy…

The way the Church does politics is largely ineffective

May 22, 2015
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This is a guest post by the Rev'd Stephen Heard – Assistant Priest at St Mark's Church, Enfield. He is a former civil servant with a background in political and…

This government ignores the advice of churches at its peril

May 15, 2015
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Anyone with any sense who wants to achieve anything in life will know that accountability is crucial. Having some form of moderation to prevent us going off the rails…

Church "mad as hell" over Tory election victory

May 11, 2015
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The Church in this instance is not the body of believers that comprise the universal Christian Ekklēsia, but the angelic singer called Charlotte, who took to the streets of…

We must fight harder for vulnerable, abused and neglected children

May 10, 2015
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This is a guest post by Dr Krish Kandiah – President of the London School of Theology and founding director of Home for Good, a new fostering and adoption charity.…

Competence over chaos: Britain votes for a new moral vision

May 8, 2015
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The choice was between "competence or chaos", as David Cameron kept on saying. All the predictions talked about a knife-edge vote, and all the personalities sank into morass of…

Votewise 2015: a biblical case for localism, subsidiarity and restored national sovereignty

May 6, 2015
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Over the last couple of months this site has covered some of the most prominent publications that have sought to define an appropriate form of Christian engagement with political…