A peer who voted against the government's same-sex marriage Bill in the House of Lords last night insisted that she was not homophobic and praised gay...

The House of Lords has crushed an attempt to kill off the gay marriage Bill by 390 votes to 148 - a majority of 242 in favour of same-sex weddings. ...

Lord Hylton, a crossbencher and one of the few remaining hereditary peers in parliament, has a problem with gay marriage. Not too surprising. So do a ...

Ukip have constructed one of most effective political marketing campaigns in recent British history, and at the heart of it is a great lie.

Members of the House of Lords raised fears of polygamy, incest and lesbian Queens as they staged a last ditch attempt to kill off the government's gay...

The debate on gay marriage fell through the looking glass on Monday, as the peer leading opposition to same-sex weddings enlisted Alice in Wonderland ...

This is no time for complacency. Church leaders and right-wing peers are determined to derail the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. They plan to introduce a wrecking amendment, arguing that equal marriage has little public support.

The Queen would be breaking her oath of coronation if she signed gay marriage in to law, according to a former leading Bishop. Bishop Michael Nazir...

Ministers are braced for a new battle over plans to allow gay marriage as the legislation begins what is expected to be a bruising passage through the...

David Cameron is facing renewed pressure over allowing gay marriage as a Tory grassroots group warned that he was alienating the party and a former Ca...

The government has heeded warnings that its gay marriage Bill would have been at risk if it stuck to plans to make members of the House of Lords vote ...

Gay marriage advocates have warned that the same-sex marriage Bill could be put at risk by a late night vote in the House of Lords, as the peer leadin...

This week has seen the repeated throwing of the metaphorical rattle out of the eclectic pram that is the vortex of UK politics. The typical whisperings of the Conservative grassroots became veritable shouts as the fierce debate on EU membership raged on.

There can no longer be any doubt, this Bill wrecks marriage. Labour's amendment, scrawled on a dog-eared scrap of paper and hastily tabled in the Commons at the eleventh hour. The Bill to wreck marriage has social liberals giddy with delight.

What has been interesting for me watching this three act play unfold is that it really makes you think about what MPs are like as individuals. In matters such as this when their personal beliefs are brought to the fore and when such matters result in division it is very psychologically interesting.

Overwhelmingly, gay marriage is a old issue, by which I mean that old people make up the vast majority of those fulminating against it. The younger the demographic, the less bothered they are. It is quite hard to see what all the fuss is about if you are in your teens or twenties.

David Cameron has defended the introduction of gay marriage after the majority of Tory MPs voted against the bill, but tried to heal the divisions in ...

Conservative David Burrowes accused David Lammy of "playing the race card", after the Labour MP compared the fight for gay marriage to the battle to e...

David Cameron suffered a further blow to his authority on Tuesday evening as a majority of his own MPs once again refused to support plans to introduc...