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>Faith groups are to be given a central role in shaping government policies,
>a senior minister has vowed.
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6569144/Faith-groups-to-be-key-policy-advisers.html
>
So there's an election coming, and the Labour Party is competing for
the votes of the religiously inclined. No doubt the Conservatives will
do something of the same closer to May. I suppose they feel that there
are more religious people who will vote for them because they give
faith groups influence, than secularists who would vote for them if
they didn't - and I suspect that in that belief they're probably
correct.