Julia Lopez

Julia Lopez is the Conservative MP for Hornchurch and Upminster.

The Church of England needs to lead

There was a unique focus on life and death in parliament last week, with critical votes on the decriminalisation of abortion and legalisation of assisted dying. Both propositions affect the interests of the most vulnerable. So what, I wondered, was the Established Church’s take on them?  In recalling the now-retired Archbishop of Canterbury’s strident interventions