Labour Humanists

The Labour Humanist Group exists to spread awareness of humanism and humanists within the Labour Party and to promote humanist and Labour values. We are committed to:

- Fostering a commitment to equality and universal human rights, including the freedom of religion and belief for all people;

- Promoting a rational approach to bioethical, medical and scientific issues as the best guarantee of human progress;

- Defending and advancing secular government and an open society as the best model of a society where all can be included;

- Advocating an inclusive and accommodating education system which can meet the needs of children and parents of different religions and beliefs in a framework common to all, and opposing faith schools and academies;

- Defending the secular nature of our public services

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‘The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. Where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe. And where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.’