Sentences with phrase «illiberal bill»

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These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

In opposition I know the Liberal Democrats would be spearheading the campaign against this illiberal repressive Bill.

Apparently Lib Dems considered the bill so bad, so irredeemably illiberal, that it was decided it could not be sorted by tweaking and Clegg wielded his veto.