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    Apr 29, 2021 3 minutes

    SOMETHING DRAMATIC happened on Good Friday. Not 2000 years ago, but the day last month when it became clear that it was now unacceptable for the Leader of the Labour Party to visit a church which ministers to the Nigerian diaspora if it holds to social and theological positions common to Nigeria.

    To recap: Sir Keir Starmer made a Good Friday visit to Jesus House, a glass megachurch in Brent Cross, which is a part of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, a denomination founded in

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