Category - labour party

Welfare should be based on fairness

Press Office — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:30:42 +0100

Responding to the Labour Party's new consultation with faith communities, launched by the Prime Minister at a reception at Number 10 Downing Street, the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia ha

Labour consultation with faith groups raises critical questions

staff writers — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:27:51 +0100

PM Gordon Brown has launched a new consultation involving the Labour Party, churches and faith communities. It will focus on identifying the values held in common by different faiths and beliefs - ones that also echo with the non-religious.

Church leaders, equality rules and a 'new morality'

Press Office — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:32:17 +0000

Responding to accusations by the Catholic Bishop of Motherwell and the Anglican Bishop of Durham that the government is promoting a 'new morality' by pursuing a comprehensive equalities agenda in p

Labour told not to count on Catholic vote

staff writers — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:29:59 +0000

A Catholic bishop in Scotland yesterday made a political intervention ahead of elections in May, by denouncing the Labour establishment in Holyrood and Westminster for creating "morality devoid of any Christian principle".