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It’s about more than marriage. Just ask a Pom…

4 October 2017

6:01 PM

4 October 2017

6:01 PM

I run Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, the Bow Group, and in 2012 I opposed the then Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposed Same-Sex Marriage Bill.

The Bow Group intervenes on a large number of policy issues in the defence and promotion of conservatism. I can honestly say that I have never encountered anything of the magnitude of vitriol and skulduggery that occurred as a result of our opposition to same-sex marriage in my time, nor in my knowledge of the organisation’s 65-year history. 

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