Tesco has been accused of being ‘bullied’ into its decision to remove a group from its Community Fund charity initiative following complaints that the cause was ‘politically motivated’ and campaigns in support of the ban on abortion.

The Government is to defy the United Nations by stalling on abortion reform, despite a condemnation of the existing laws as “cruel, inhuman and degrading”.

Mothers of children born with life-limiting conditions want politicians to support the discontinuation of the phrase “incompatible with life” in disability legislation.