Time for Theresa May to relax abortion laws laws in Northern Ireland, insists Labour peer
Tuesday, 29 May 2018 () Labour has told Prime Minister Theresa May to prove her feminist credentials by reforming Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws. Mrs May had already faced calls from MPs across the Commons - including within her own Cabinet - to resolve the "anomalous" situation in Northern Ireland following the overwhelming referendum result in the Republic in favour of liberalisation. Labour said it was now "looking at legislative options" to see how that could be achieved by Westminster. The party's shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti said reform was a matter of...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018 ()
Labour has told Prime Minister Theresa May to prove her feminist credentials by reforming Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws. Mrs May had already faced calls from MPs across the Commons - including within her own Cabinet - to resolve the "anomalous" situation in Northern Ireland following the overwhelming referendum result in the Republic in favour of liberalisation. Labour said it was now "looking at legislative options" to see how that could be achieved by Westminster. The party's shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti said reform was a matter of...