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Simon Hughes

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Name: Simon Hughes

First reported 12 mins ago - Updated 12 mins ago - 1 reports

Church of England

Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes: ‘I struggled with the issue of sexuality since I was a teenager’

Simon Hughes said he had 'struggled with sexuality' for years (Image: Keith Edkins)The Deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes, has spoken during the debate around the equal marriage bill for England and Wales, to say that he “struggled with ... [Published Pink News - 12 mins ago]

Entities: Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrats, Church of England, David Burrowes, Homosexuality

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

UK Marriage Equality Bill Survives Amendment Onslaught

A number of amendments were offered to the marriage equality bill, including at least one that could have killed it.Pink News reports on one that would have allowed registrars opt out of performing same sex weddings:An amendment to the Marriage (Same ... [Published Gayapolis - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Marriage Equality USA, David Burrowes, Gay

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Social Democratic and Labour party

The list of MPs who voted for the Tim Loughton amendment were:

Conservative: 56 Adam Afriyie (Windsor), Peter Aldous (Waveney), Steven Baker (Wycombe), Andrew Bingham (High Peak), Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West), Andrew Bridgen (Leicestershire North West), Steve Brine (Winchester), Robert Buckland (Swindon ... [Published Telegraph - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Tim Loughton, Elmet & Rothwell, Joe Benton, David Crausby, Social Democratic and Labour party

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

House of Commons

Efforts to offer teachers and registrars legal protection if they do not want to teach about or conduct same-sex marriages have been blocked by MPs.A series of new clauses to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill were put forward at report stage on 20 ... [Published BBC - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Same-Sex Marriage, Chris Bryant, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Hugh Robertson

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Maria Miller on defensive against gay marriage ‘wrecking amendment’

The final stages of the Same Sex marriage bill in the House of Commons were never going to be easy, but it is still an odd situation when the minister guiding the legislation through Parliament is pleading with the opposition party to reject an amendment ... [Published The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion ... - May 20 2013]

Entities: Maria Miller, Gay, Heterosexuality, Christopher Chope, Same-Sex Marriage

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Caroline Lucas

Lucas and Lib Dems back civil partnership amendment

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has confirmed her support for the controversial civil partnerships amendment that has been accused of aiming to "wreck" the Government's gay marriage bill.Writing on Twitter, Ms Lucas questioned the Coalition's claim that ... [Published itv.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Caroline Lucas, Liberal Democrats, John Hemming

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Liberal Democrats

Friend or foe: Is pluralism on the left dead?

Against the background of the Peter Kellner’s analysis presented to Progress conference on Saturday, all thoughts were geared towards how Labour can win a majority in 2015 – and what might happen were such a result to prove out of reach, with Labour MPs ... [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - May 17 2013]

Entities: Liberal Democrats, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Mary Riddell

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Clegg attacks Sri Lanka's 'suppression of press freedom'

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has attacked the lack of press freedom in Sri Lanka while defending the government's decision to attend a Commonwealth summit in the country.He did so when answering questions in the Commons yesterday from a Lib-Dem party ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]

Entities: Suppression, Sri Lanka, Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrats

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Clegg attacks Sri Lanka's 'suppression of press freedom'

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has attacked the lack of press freedom in Sri Lanka while defending the government's decision to attend a Commonwealth summit in the country. He did so when answering questions in the Commons yesterday from a Lib-Dem ... [Published Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk - May 16 2013]

Entities: Nick Clegg, Sri Lanka, Suppression, Simon Hughes

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Simon Hughes: Conservatives need to get their act together

Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes tells Radio 4's World at One that the Tory party should 'get its act together' to focus on issues that effect the electorate. ... [Published PoliticsHome - May 15 2013]

Entities: Simon Hughes

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Maria Miller rejects claim by Simon Hughes that equal marriage has been ‘fast tracked’

Simon Hughes questioned the speed at which equal marriage is being legislatedMaria Miller, the Minister for Equalities, has rejected a claim made by the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats that same-sex marriage is being “fast tracked” through Parliament ... [Published Pink News - May 14 2013]

Entities: Simon Hughes, Maria Miller, Mrs. Elva Miller

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

Simon Hughes opens new dementia unit at Tower Bridge Care Home

Simon Hughes MP has performed the official opening ceremony for a new 16-bed specialist dementia unit in the at Bricklayers Arms.Guests at the opening ceremony included representatives of the NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group and Southwark C ... [Published London SE1 - May 14 2013]

Entities: Simon Hughes, Southern Cross Group, NHS

Quotes

Christians on both sides of the debate spoke during the session. Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat MP, said: "there is still a lot of prejudice to confront. only yesterday a member of a church in my constituency told me that anyone who is gay is defective." However, as chair of the board of governors of a Church of England primary school and trustee of a Church of England secondary school, he sought "a little...

Gay-marriage Bill passes latest hurdle [Published ChurchTimes - 1 hour ago]

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Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes: ‘I struggle... [Published Pink News - 12 mins ago]
Gay-marriage Bill passes latest hurdle [Published ChurchTimes - 1 hour ago]
UK Marriage Equality Bill Survives Amendment On... [Published Gayapolis - 10 hours ago]
The list of MPs who voted for the Tim Loughton ... [Published Telegraph - 14 hours ago]
House of Commons [Published BBC - 15 hours ago]
Labour comes to Cameron's rescue as gay marriag... [Published New Statesman - 15 hours ago]
Lucas and Lib Dems back civil partnership amend... [Published itv.com - May 20 2013]
Maria Miller on defensive against gay marriage ... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - May 20 2013]
Rajapaksa Govt Fast Losing Its Allure [Published Sri Lanka Sunday Leader - May 19 2013]
EnviroWeekly \| Stop the KeystoneXL oil pipeline... [Published Drexel University Triangle - May 18 2013]
Downing Street backs 2014 Glasgow invitation to... [Published Herald Scotland - May 18 2013]
Friend or foe: Is pluralism on the left dead? [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - May 17 2013]
Elections at Gibraltar UK Parliament Group [Published Gibraltar Chronicle - May 16 2013]
Clegg attacks Sri Lanka's 'suppression of press... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Clegg attacks Sri Lanka's 'suppression of press... [Published Media: Greenslade \| guardian.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Sri Lanka: UK Deputy PMs awareness not on geno... [Published TamilNet Newswire - May 16 2013]
Simon Hughes: Conservatives need to get their a... [Published PoliticsHome - May 15 2013]
CLEGG WARNS SRI LANKA [Published PoliticsHome - May 15 2013]
Prime Minister's Questions [Published BBC - May 15 2013]
Maria Miller rejects claim by Simon Hughes that... [Published Pink News - May 14 2013]
Simon Hughes opens new dementia unit at Tower B... [Published London SE1 - May 14 2013]
Specialist dementia unit opens at London care home [Published Care Home - May 14 2013]
Victory Day in London Remembers Russian-UK Coop... [Published RIA Novosti - May 09 2013]
Victory Day commemorated at Southwark's Soviet ... [Published London SE1 - May 09 2013]
Thatcher’s Revolution [Published Capitalism Magazine - May 09 2013]
Queen Tells Black Rod To "Shut The F*** Up" As ... [Published Huffington Post UK - May 08 2013]
'Simply Not Credible' [Published Huffington Post UK - May 08 2013]
Simon Hughes: Need to tackle public service ent... [Published PoliticsHome - May 08 2013]
Archbishop Nichols at Migrants' Mass: Do not pu... [Published Independent Catholic News - May 07 2013]
Open GI and PowerPlace introduce SME web tradin... [Published RFPConnect - May 07 2013]

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Maria Miller on defensive against gay marriage ... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - May 20 2013] The final stages of the Same Sex marriage bill in the House of Commons were never going to be easy, but it is still an odd situation when the minister guiding the legislation through Parliament is pleading with the opposition party to reject an amendment ...
Clegg attacks Sri Lanka's 'suppression of press... [Published Media: Greenslade \| guardian.co.uk - May 16 2013] Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has attacked the lack of press freedom in Sri Lanka while defending the government's decision to attend a Commonwealth summit in the country. He did so when answering questions in the Commons yesterday from a Lib-Dem ...
Liberal Democrats suffered 'patchy result' in S... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - May 03 2013] The Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes says the party has held all their seats 'where it matters' despite its performance in the South Shields byelection ...
About that UKIP tax policy… [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 26 2013] Nigel Farage was on Question Time again last night. This was hardly unusual, but what was interesting was that the UKIP leader U-turned on one of his flagship policies. When he spoke at a press lunch on Tuesday , Farage accepted that UKIP’s flat tax ...
Electoral reform – Coming sooner than you think? [Published politicalbetting.com - Apr 17 2013] A few days ago, Simon Hughes speaking in the Financial Times , about potential future coalition negotiations in 2015, said “If the time did come for more coalition negotiations, the experience of coalition the first time will be clearly taken on ...