The Government is being urged by a group of powerful MPs to axe references to Christianity from the constitutions of Britain’s far-flung outposts.
To the dismay of Church leaders, the Foreign Affairs Committee is pressing for the change amid claims that references to traditional Christian morality could undermine gay rights in the overseas territories.
The committee, chaired by Labour MP Mike Gapes, also objects to Christianity being singled out above other faiths.
We are in the last days of the Labour government here in the UK. There must be an election by early June next year, and realistically probably early May to link with local government elections. As so often, in its last days a government gets increasingly intolerant, nervously insistent on ideological solutions that no one wants.