Gary Gibbon
Tory MP threatens Cameron with water clock torture
The marriage (same-sex couples) bill gets its third reading and with it the moment for quite a few Tory MPs to register their unhappiness.
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Gary Gibbon
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‘Growing gap’ between Cameron and Conservative party
As the gay marriage bill has its final Commons reading, a Tory MP says members of his local party are angry about claims that Conservative activists were described as “mad, swivel-eyed loons”.
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Far-right historian takes own life in Paris cathedral
Thousands of tourists are evacuated from Notre Dame cathedral in Paris after a far-right historian, who recently campaigned against France same-sex marriage law, shoots himself at the altar.
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Gary Gibbon
‘Swivel-eyed loons’ Tory escapes investigation
After a quick debate, MPs vote not to investigate allegations about what Lord Feldman did or did not say – and his constituents appear to be more suspicious of those behind the stories.
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FactCheck: the cost of heterosexual civil partnerships
Extending the right to a civil partnership could to straight couples could cost the state up to £4bn, according to countless headlines. FactCheck isn’t convinced.
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Why straight couples want a civil partnership over marriage
As some MPs propose the same-sex marriage bill is amended to allow civil partnerships for heterosexuals, Channel 4 News hears why some would say “I don’t” to marriage – but “I do” to a civil partner.
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Same-sex marriage: Labour backs coalition government
Labour says it will not support a Conservative amendment to the government’s gay marriage plans that could have seen the legislation derailed. But the government suffers a setback in the Commons.
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New Zealand legalises gay marriage
A vote in the New Zealand parliament to legalise gay marriage is greeted with cheers and singing from campaigners in the public gallery.
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Gay marriage: US Supreme Court hears historic cases
Two cases, two potentially historic rulings on the future of gay rights. Should same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry – and equal protection under the law?
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I support gay marriage: top Republican’s change of heart
Top Republican Senator Rob Portman says he now supports same-sex marriage after his son came out as gay – and reveals David Cameron helped inspire his change of heart.
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Cardinal reported for ‘inappropriate behaviour’
Three priests and a former priest report the most senior Catholic clergyman in Britain, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, to the Vatican over allegations of inappropriate behaviour stretching back 30 years.
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Can gay couples redefine the nuclear family?
Novelist Anne Atkins, writer Andrew Solomon, and Dan Gillespie Sells, singer with The Feeling, ask if same-sex parents are making us re-evaluate what we understand by family life.
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Gary Gibbon
Tories give Lords a signal to create trouble over gay marriage
The fact that some 139 Tories voted against gay marriage is a giant signal to the Lords to create trouble when the bill gets there.
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Gary Gibbon
Gay marriage: Tories split down the middle?
Amid predictions that Tories will be “ripping bits” out of each other during today’s gay marriage debate, how concerned should David Cameron be about possible political fallout?
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Gay marriage will make our society stronger – Cameron
Ahead of a crunch vote on same-sex marriage, David Cameron makes a last-minute televised statement in the hope of convincing Conservative MPs to back his plans.
