Feb 28, 2025 · In CI News this week: The Leadbeater Bill: Safeguards rejected as Clause 1 passes, Scotland’s First Minister doubles down on support for men in women’s spaces, MSP: ‘Praying in your home could be illegal depending who passes the window’and Degrading and violent online pornography must be banned, says Govt review.

Mar 7, 2025 · The new Government working group to define so-called Islamophobia must not limit free speech, critics warn. The group has been set up by the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, and will be chaired by Dominic Grieve KC. It has been given six months to agree suitable wording. The definition ...

Mar 7, 2025 · In CI News this week: The Christian Institute urges the Government to drop plans for a new law on ‘conversion therapy’ as the charity publishes a major report on the issue, a YouGov survey finds a significant fall in support for ’trans rights’ in Great Britain, and former Justice Secretary Michael Gove defends the freedom of Christians to …

Mar 6, 2025 · The Christian Institute has published a new report urging the Government to ditch its plans to introduce a new law banning ‘conversion practices’. ‘Proving Tricky’ highlights how a new law could criminalise parents, church leaders and medical professionals, and details how numerous attempts ...

Feb 14, 2025 · No safeguards. A committee of MPs is currently in the process of considering more than 400 amendments to the Bill. Earlier this week Lib Dem MP Sarah Olney’s amendment for the Bill to require ‘ability’ to opt for assisted suicide rather than the …

Feb 17, 2025 · At least half of all murders over the last five years in England and Wales were drug related, new figures have shown. Analysing Home Office data, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that 1,640 of the 3,062 murders committed between April 2019 and March 2024 were linked to drugs.

Jan 10, 2025 · Parliamentary prayers should not be abandoned to appease ‘modernisers’, a long-standing MP has warned. Sir John Hayes said it was important to begin each sitting of the House of Commons with prayer to afford MPs time for quiet reflection, and in recognition of the UK’s Christian heritage.

Mar 4, 2025 · Legalising assisted suicide undermines society’s long-standing commitment to ending all suicides, a Government suicide prevention advisor has warned. Professor Louis Appleby, who chairs the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group, told The Guardian that Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally ...

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, Second Reading, 8 January 2025 RUSHED PROCESS The 128-page Bill was published on 17 December 2024. The Commons adjourned on 19 December, returning on

Mar 6, 2025 · Government should ditch controversial, complex and unnecessary conversion therapy ban plan. The Labour Government should ditch its plan to introduce a controversial and complex conversion therapy ban because it could criminalise medical professionals, parents and church leaders, says a leading Christian group.