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Wes Streeting on class, trans rights and binge drinking

The News Agents

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The Importance of Faith in Politics

I'm struck there are an unusual number of senior politicians, not just in this country, who slightly unusually now, given how secular modern Britain has become. For me, the message of Christianity is fundamentally about love, care and compassion for others, and social action. The other reason why I'm keen to talk about my faith more is actually more directed towards the secular public. We've seen too often the headlines associate Christianity with opposing a woman's rights choose or voting against LGBT equality. And I think we see the worst of it in America, where for reasons I cannot understand a bunch of gun-toting lunatics seem to think that if Jesus was alive today, he'd be carrying an

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