Labour says it's serious about change. The Church should be too

It’s time for the Church to get serious about the things that really matter, says George Pitcher. And that means less time on same-sex relationships and more on the lost, the poor and the marginalised

The first trope to emerge of our new Labour government is that it is serious. It’s said the adults are back in the room, led in by the calm and sensible Keir Starmer, “unburdened by doctrine”, he claims, treading lightly on our lives and always putting the country before party interests.

The purpose of this piety, which doesn’t actually mean anything when you poke it, is to put clear blue water between the new administration and the past 14 years of Tory “chaos”, a slogan that saw Labour through its election campaign to victory.