House of Lords reject call to scrap coronation oath
The House of Lords has rejected a call to disestablish the Church of England, remove God from the coronation oath and to declare Britain a secular state.
Drawing on an National Secular Society (NSS) report, Lord Berkeley asked: “Is it not time for the new monarch, when he comes, to embrace this secular state and perhaps swear an oath to Parliament?”
NSS want to ditch the coronation promise – to “maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel”.