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Papal visit fuels calls to end ban on Catholic succession

The public is being urged to back a campaign to scrap a 300-year-old law which prohibits Catholics ascending the throne, ahead of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain next month.

 

The Coalition Government is currently asking voters to nominate laws which they think restrict civil liberties and should be abolished or amended.