The Archbishop of Canterbury launched a stinging attack on those who fail to appreciate the benefits of marriage today and described married couples as heroes who give stability to society.
Dr Rowan Williams said the “commentating classes of North London” - whose own marriages often failed - were unable to see the wider cost to society of marriage breakdown.
Although Dr Williams did not refer directly to Tony Blair or his cabinet, his comments will be seen as a coded swipe at New Labour.
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Many influential figures in New Labour lived close to Mr Blair in Islington, north London, in the early 1990s before he became Prime Minister.
They argued that marriage should be relegated to the same moral status as cohabiting. Read more
Tuesday 6 February 2007
Archbishop's "coded swipe at New Labour" over marriage
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