Ms Jones who is a co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary
Group for charities, said: "We have seen one tiny change thanks
to charities and other groups protesting loudly, but there are still major
issues with the bill.
Speaking in the House of Commons
yesterday (Tues), Ms Jones said: "Our
tradition of charities being allowed to campaign on political issues germane to
their charitable activities is at the heart of British life and our democracy.
"It been established in case law since 1917, a year
before universal male suffrage. Well before women had the vote, Lord Normand,
in the case of Bowman V Secular Society, held that a society whose predominant
aim was not to change the law could be charitable when its campaign to
change the law was merely a subsidiary activity.
"That tradition has a long pedigree in this
country and I do not believe that it should be for tinkering
politicians, perhaps fearful of the impact of Cameron and Clegg Non-Mania in
2015, to play with it."
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