Callous Keir killing off our moral code

IN A shameful few days in Parliament, last week Labour voted to permit abortions until birth and to allow assisted dying. Neither were in its manifesto and yet in the space of a couple of days this government has rammed these laws through the House of Commons — driving a coach and horses through the country’s moral code and how we value the sanctity of life.

- Esther McVey

Labour governments have a habit of destroying the fabric of our country. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did it by taking power away from the people and elected politicians, and handing it over to unelected quangos and unaccountable human rights judges.

But what Keir Starmer’s government has just done is arguably far worse with even more damaging consequences for society.

The law to allow abortion up to birth came from nowhere. There wasn’t some hue and cry in the country demanding this change. It was done as a result of two female Labour backbenchers competing with each other, supposedly in the name of women’s rights.