Nicholas Wapshott's recent article in the Catholic Herald about the US presidential election (April 2024) could be summed up, channelling Shakespeare, as “a plague on both your houses”. A similar feeling may be widespread about the forthcoming UK general election, which has been announced for 4 July.
Few people think the sitting Conservative government has done well, but is a Labour government likely to be better or worse? For most voters the most important concerns are probably economic conditions and migration. But what is the view from a pro-life perspective? The answer seems to be that the choice is between bad, worse and worst – and the worst is very much worse than the others.
