Britain’s PM faces gay marriage revolt as plots swirl
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 5, 2013 21:15
British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to see his ruling Conservative party split in two on Tuesday over his government’s plans to legalize gay marriage, a move critics say is not a priority for the public and unnecessarily divisive.
Although parliament is likely to vote to give the draft law initial approval, up to half of Cameron’s 303 Conservative lawmakers, including some Cabinet ministers, are expected to vote against it on what they say are moral and religious grounds.
In a sign of how divisive the issue has become for Cameron, the finance minister, the foreign secretary and the interior minister wrote a joint letter to a national newspaper on Tuesday, urging fellow Conservatives to vote in favor.
Behind in the polls, Cameron is trying to perform a tricky, and some analysts believe, impossible balancing act: to reconcile his desire to show his party is progressive with the views of many of those inside it uncomfortable with such reform.
Amid growing talk of a possible leadership challenge against him, many Conservative lawmakers say they feel Cameron is not a real conservative and is sacrificing what were once core party values on the altar of populism.
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