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FORMER Labour and Respect MP George Galloway took issue on Tuesday evening with claims that the European Union is the guarantor of workplace and other democratic rights.
He listed legislation from decriminalisation of homosexuality to abortion rights, abolition of theatre censorship and the introduction of equal pay legislation as examples of legal progress before Britain joined the EU.
Mr Galloway told a Cardiff Left Leave (Lexit) meeting: “Don’t tell me the EU is a civilising mission.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
