Liberal Democrat unease over the arrival of Philip Lee, a defector, spilled out into the open during a debate on a platform of measures to move towards equal marriage at the the party’s conference on Saturday.
Party activists were voting on a swathe of new policies that would see humanist marriages become legally recognised in England and Wales and end the spousal veto on people seeking gender recognition, among other proposals to move towards “full” marriage equality.
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