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Revealed: Nadine Dorries and her real views on abortion


by Sunny Hundal    
September 1, 2011 at 9:05 am

In April this year we unearthed a presentation by Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship, in which he argued it was important to chip away slowly at abortion rights, to reach the goal of a full ban on abortion.

“We have to realise we are in for a very long battle here,” he said.

This week Dorries admitted to receiving advice from Dr Saunders – and refused to reveal who was behind her ‘Right to Know’ campaign website.
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Email: RBS u-turn on funding cluster bombs


by Newswire    
September 1, 2011 at 12:03 am

The Royal Bank of Scotland has tonight u-turned and accepted that it should stop funding cluster bombs.

An internal email said:

From: “RBS Group Customer Relations”
Date: 31 August 2011 21:04:15 GMT+01:00
To: *******
Subject: RBS Group’s Defence Sector Position
Reply-To: GCRExecutiveSupport@rbs.com

RBS Group Customer Relations has sent you this e-mail. If this e-mail does not display properly simply view online

RBS Group’s Defence Sector Position
Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank-you for your e-mail regarding the RBS Group’s approach to defence sector lending, specifically relating to the production of cluster munitions.

The Group’s policy in this area is both comprehensive and clear. It states that RBS will not knowingly support any application for funding or financial services that would lead to contravention of the Oslo Convention on cluster munitions. We will always seek to ensure that we only deal with defence sector clients whose activities are compliant with both the letter and the spirit of the Convention.

After discussions with various NGO groups we have identified some defence sector clients whose activities could be considered to be outside the spirit of the Convention. As a result, we will be suspending all further services to any client where we can not be certain that they are in compliance with our policy. We will seek to work with both the UK Government and NGO groups to create clarity on this issue, and encourage other banks to do the same.

RBS Group

Amnesty UK had been running a pretty vigorous campaign, fronted by director Chris Atkins, on the issue.

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