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hit out at Sunday trade
ARCHBISHOP DEREK Worlock of Liverpool and Dr David Sheppard, the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, issued a joint statement last Friday to express their opposition to the total deregulation of Sunday trading.
Calling the proposed Sunday Trading Bill "harmful to important aspects of community life in this country", the bishops' statement warned that family life and Sunday worship would suffer especially from the Bill's implementation.
The • Sunday Trading Bill is due to emerge from the House of Lords next week, and will be before the House of Commons next month. The Government suffered its first defeat on the Bill last week, when Lord Stockton led the Lords to vote, by a majority of one, to keep regulations protecting shop workers' rights to days off and lunch breaks.
The Government is worried that more obstacles will arise during the Bill's passage; traditional Conservatives are already joining the ranks of the "Keep Sunday Special" campaign, which aims at fighting the Bill.
Leaders of the Catholic Church as well as of other Churches have all lent their support to the "Keep Sunday Special" campaign, as has the National Chamber of Trade. The movement plans 240 meetings to be held this month to demand that MPs be given a .free vote.
And on St Valentines Day, the campaigners had organised confrontations in constituencies between Conservative MPs and their angry constituents.
Mr Kaufman, Shadow Home Secretary said last week that the Government must drop "this dogmatic and doctrinaire venture", because it undermined workers, endangered the livelihood of small shopkeepers, and offended the consciences of millions.
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hit out at Sunday trade
ARCHBISHOP DEREK Worlock of Liverpool and Dr David Sheppard, the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, issued a joint statement last Friday to express their opposition to the total deregulation of Sunday trading.
Calling the proposed Sunday Trading Bill "harmful to important aspects of community life in this country", the bishops' statement warned that family life and Sunday worship would suffer especially from the Bill's implementation.
The • Sunday Trading Bill is due to emerge from the House of Lords next week, and will be before the House of Commons next month. The Government suffered its first defeat on the Bill last week, when Lord Stockton led the Lords to vote, by a majority of one, to keep regulations protecting shop workers' rights to days off and lunch breaks.
The Government is worried that more obstacles will arise during the Bill's passage; traditional Conservatives are already joining the ranks of the "Keep Sunday Special" campaign, which aims at fighting the Bill.
Leaders of the Catholic Church as well as of other Churches have all lent their support to the "Keep Sunday Special" campaign, as has the National Chamber of Trade. The movement plans 240 meetings to be held this month to demand that MPs be given a .free vote.
And on St Valentines Day, the campaigners had organised confrontations in constituencies between Conservative MPs and their angry constituents.
Mr Kaufman, Shadow Home Secretary said last week that the Government must drop "this dogmatic and doctrinaire venture", because it undermined workers, endangered the livelihood of small shopkeepers, and offended the consciences of millions.
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