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Church of England

the reformed established state Church in England, Catholic in order and basic doctrine, with the Sovereign as its temporal head
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In what was seen as a swipe at the Prime Minister's controversial right-hand man, Dominic Cummings, he said intimated that his party was being hijacked, saying: "I am going to defend my party against incomers, entryists, who are trying to turn it from a broad church to narrow faction."
Only by working together as a broad church can we change the lives for our constituents.
Those are not pillars supporting the same roof of a broad church. They are rival conceptions of what a government is for.
In order to win, rather than achieve glorious failure, Labour need to be a broad church who welcome both new converts and old believers.
"The Labour Party can only win when it is a broad church, covering from the left to the centre in British politics under our electoral system."
Regional Science is a very broad church. It uses the critical focus of geographic regions and communities of interest as, in effect, the building blocks of physical, economic and social/community advancement.
Festival co-director Mark Makin says: "The festival has always been a pretty broad church in terms of what we think constitutes comedy and it's really that breadth that has allowed us to grow the festival line-up over the last couple of years.
Mr Walker quotes the great Tony Benn who fully understood the Labour Party is a broad church though always decried the personal abuse of individuals rather than concentrating on the important issues that confront people in their daily lives.
"We're a very broad church. We sort of take advice from wherever we will," Rudd told reporters.
The Labour Party is a broad church. Battles between "left" and "right" were taking place long before Tony Blair and colleagues invented New Labour.
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