DUP accused regarding royal marriage reforms stance

The Democratic Unionist Party was today accused of using 16th-century propaganda to oppose plans to allow heirs to the British throne to marry Catholics.

DUP accused regarding royal marriage reforms stance

The Democratic Unionist Party was today accused of using 16th-century propaganda to oppose plans to allow heirs to the British throne to marry Catholics.

After Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was determined to end the discrimination in the 1701 Act of Settlement, DUP junior minister Jeffrey Donaldson opposed the plan and claimed Catholics owed their first allegiance to the Vatican.

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