Gordon Brown is to allow three Catholic members of his Cabinet to vote with their "conscience" on the Government's controversial legislation on embryo research, in a highly unusual attempt to dampen down a spiralling political row.
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March 23rd, 2008
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March 23rd, 2008
AN ?ACCOMODATION? will be reached with Labour?s Catholic MPs faced with the Government?s controversial legislation on embryo research.
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March 23rd, 2008
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March 23rd, 2008
More than 200 leading charities have written to MPs to urge them to support new laws allowing the creation of part-human part-animal embryos.
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March 23rd, 2008
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill has provoked furious dissent from MPs and Church leaders.
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March 23rd, 2008
Gordon Brown is preparing to back down and allow Labour MPs to vote against parts of the controversial embryo bill after facing a possible ministerial rebellion, according to reports.
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March 23rd, 2008
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March 23rd, 2008
Gordon Brown was warned by a former senior cabinet minister last night that he risks public scorn if he does not offer Labour MPs a free vote on controversial new embryo research laws.
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March 23rd, 2008
In the 18 years since the passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, there have been such significant medical advances that the need to update the legislation is unanswerable. That, at least, all parties in the current controversy are agreed upon.
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March 23rd, 2008
One in 23 teenage girls in parts of Britain has had an abortion, according to figures released by ministers.