Rowena Mason has a fantastic tale that will run and run. The Church of England's Archbishops’ Council, headed by Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, has made a submission on Europe to the Foreign Affairs select committee.
It urges the Government to be more constructive and positive in its attitude to the EU, and warns that David Cameron's "veto" last December cost the UK credibility. Leaving the EU would be a "travesty", they claim. Quite a lot of Britons now disagree and think that leaving would be rather a good idea. But the Archbishops explain that they are speaking out because the CofE is “by virtue of its history a European Church”.
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