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       Keir Starmer is tearing the social fabric apart (Image: PA)

       In a shameful few days in Parliament, last week Labour voted to permit abortions until birth and to allow assisted dying. Neither were in its manifesto and yet in the space of a couple of days this government has rammed these laws through the House of Commons – driving a coach and horses through the country’s moral code and how we value the sanctity of life.

       Labour governments have a habit of destroying the fabric of our country. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did it by taking power away from the people and elected politicians, and handing it over to unelected quangos and unaccountable human rights judges.

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       But what Keir Starmer’s government has just done is arguably far worse with even more damaging consequences for society.

       The law to allow abortion up to birth came from nowhere. There wasn’t some hue and cry in the country demanding this change. It was done as a result of two female Labour backbenchers competing with each other, supposedly in the name of women’s rights.

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       This from a party who couldn’t even define what a woman was until the Supreme Court Judgment of a few months ago – and failed to stand up for the rights of white working-class girls being abused by rape gangs.

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       Women’s rights? Don’t make me laugh. It’s just a flag of convenience for this lot to unfurl when votes are needed or to wave when surrendering.

       The debate lasted just two hours, and the change of law was forced through in an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill.

       There were whoops and hollers of joy in the chamber by Labour MPs as it passed. I’m pro-choice, but to allow terminations past the current 24-week limit (double the European average) is morally reprehensible. Given that babies are now viable when born after just 22 weeks, we should be reducing the time limit for abortions, not allowing them up to the point of birth.

       Hot on the heels of that debacle, the Assisted Suicide Bill was then passed. Pushed through via a backbench Bill, it was not even a government Bill, with all the proper scrutiny a Bill of such magnitude warrants.

       Shamefully, Labour rejected an amendment which would have exempted those who felt they were being a burden on their family from assisted suicide.

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       Already it is falling apart. Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who voted against the Bill, has said that the NHS doesn’t have the money to set this up properly, and that it will impact other parts of the health budget. Each death will apparently cost approximately ￡15k.

       How typical of this government not to have worked out the amount or the impact on the health system. I suppose we can only hope these changes will add to their growing list of U-turns or that the House of Lords wrecks the Assisted Suicide Bill.

       If not, then it won’t just be the economy that this government collapses but society’s moral code too.