Fade the Blog: Johnson tries to defuse embryos bill crisis

Ministers were yesterday battling to defuse a growing crisis over whether dissenting Labour MPs should be entitled to vote against parts of the human embryology and fertilisation bill. The health secretary, Alan Johnson, who is responsible for piloting the bill through the Commons, said no MPs would be forced to vote against their conscience, but stopped short of a commitment that MPs would be entitled to vote against parts of the bill.

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