Labour MP Clive Lewis' anti-monarchy 'protest oath' in Parliament

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The Godless Parliament? Highest ever proportion of MPs opt to affirm rather than take a religious oath when swearing in to the Commons - with Keir Starmer among the 40% who opted for a secular vow to become the 'first PM to do so since Ramsay MacDonald'

Labour MP Clive Lewis takes an anti-monarchy 'protest oath' in Parliament, saying he lives in hope that 'his fellow citizens would one day decide to live in a Republic', before repeating the prescribed oath to be...

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