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  • MARRIAGE VOTE PASSES

    The legislation legalising same-sex marriage has been passed by the House of Commons and will now move to the Lords for further scrutiny. MPs backed the third reading of th...


  • The Waugh Room

    Peer Bashing

    Peer Bashing

    The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill faces some key votes tonight and tomorrow before it clears the Commons. But on Wednesday, the Lords then formally takes on th...

  • The Green Box

    Read the full transcript of Equalities Minister Maria Miller's statement to the Commons at the third reading of the same-sex marriage bill here.

  • The House Magazine

    Doctor in the House

    Doctor in the House

      BY PAUL WAUGH AND SAM MACRORY       "I still write prescriptions for people here and I can still treat people in an emergency…It’s a very convertibl...

  • Dot Commons' Diary

    Beast-Leigh

    Beast-Leigh

    Today's debate on the amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill was bound to raise tensions, however Edward Leigh started by assuring the chamber that despit...

  • Political Pulse

    The Knowledge

      John Mann MP’s constituency of Bassetlaw in many ways fits the demographic of somewhere we might expect to see UKIP make progress: a part of the East Midlands o...

Central Lobby

Everyone equal in the sight of God say the Quakers

Paul Parker, Recording Clerk for the Quakers in Britain, sets out why they support Equal Marriage and look forward to conducting the first same sex Quaker marriage.

Top Ten Must Reads

Iain Martin heads today's political must reads.

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