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9 May 2010updated 04 Oct 2023 12:13pm

Secularism silenced

Evan Harris losing his seat is not just a blow to the Liberal Democrats.

By Sholto Byrnes

A few prayers of thanks will be offered up today over the departure from the Commons of the Liberal Democrat Dr Evan Harris, if this extraordinarily personal and vitriolic column by the Telegraph‘s religion editor, Rev George Pitcher, is anything to go by.

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