Saturday, April 2, 2016

Sunday Trading vote a ‘victory for faith and the family’

Sunday Trading vote a ‘victory for faith and the family’

The Christian Institute has welcomed MPs’ “wonderful” refusal to open the door to extended Sunday shopping hours in England and Wales. Yesterday the House of Commons voted 317 to 286 to drop the Government’s controversial Sunday Trading plans.

Institute Director Colin Hart said he was “delighted” that so many MPs had backed calls to derail the plans. Mr Hart said: “This is a wonderful and encouraging victory for the millions of people who would have had their family life further undermined had this blinkered legislation gone through.

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