The outcome of the UK’s coming general election seems not to be in doubt; the only question is the size of the Labour majority. Rishi Sunak’s controversial decision to call a general election early, and the difficulties faced by the Scottish Nationalists, means that if the polls are right, we shall see Britain’s first avowedly atheist prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, in Downing Street next month. Naturally, neither the Church nor this paper will tell anyone how to vote. The bishops will ask Catholics to consider issues to do with the common good and social justice when they vote; these included support for the marginalised and the protection of human life from conception to natural death.