Articles about Simon Hughes

22 April 2013
UK: Deputy Lib Dem leader ‘really disappointed’ at IPS rejection of trans and intersex inclusive passports 16 Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes says he is “really disappointed” by the Identity and Passport Service’s decision to reject non gender-specific passports for trans and intersex people in Britain.
6 February 2013
Analysis: What next for the same-sex marriage bill? 24 With LGBT campaigners celebrating Tuesday’s historic vote by MPs – it’s important to remember that there is still a fair way to go before equal marriage is signed into law for England and Wales.
5 February 2013
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg: ‘Today’s vote is a landmark for equality in Britain’ 20 The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that today's vote was a "landmark for equality in Britain".
5 February 2013
Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes criticises the Government over same-sex marriage plans 17 Speaking at the debate around the Marriage (same sex couples) Bill in the House of Commons today, the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes called for the government to "proceed slowly" with the bill to attain the "maximum consensus."
5 February 2013
Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes to vote against timetable for equal marriage bill 30 The Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes, has said that he will vote against the timetabling motion for the equal marriage bill in today's vote, because he thought the timetable was "rushed".
10 January 2013
MPs sign petition encouraging government to allow gender-neutral passports 11 A petition, which has been signed by some MPs including the former equality minister, has been started to urge the UK government to allow the possibility of gender-neutrality on passports.
11 December 2012
Exclusive: Nick Clegg signals a free vote for Lib Dem MPs on same-sex marriage 44 In an exclusive interview with PinkNews.co.uk, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said: “I’m not going to be illiberal in pushing through a liberal measure” when asked if it was still the case that Lib Dem MPs would be forced to vote with the government on equal marriage.
6 July 2012
London: Lib Dem ‘straight fight’ leaflet ‘insensitive to gay candidate’ 55 Tories have complained today of a Liberal Democrat election leaflet in south-west London which described a 'straight fight' between that party's candidate and the gay Conservative also standing for the council.
28 February 2012
Simon Hughes: The Sun used phone records to force me to come out 64 Simon Hughes, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, has told the Leveson Inquiry that phone records obtained by The Sun newspaper forced him to come out as bisexual.
8 February 2012
Simon Hughes accepts damages from News of the World publisher 3 The openly bisexual deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes has settled his phone-hacking damages claims against News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers.
11 August 2011
Simon Hughes to sue News International about phone hacking 3 The bisexual deputy-leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes, is to sue News International over the hacking of his phone by a private investigator working for the now defunct News of the World.

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