In early August, David Cameron announced that Communities Secretary Eric Pickles would take over the responsibilities of Faith Minister, following the departure of Baroness Warsi.
In April this year, Pickles sparked debate by saying that militant atheists should ‘get over’ Britain being a ‘Christian nation’ and has previously taken a strong stance on matters involving religious liberty.
While addressing the Conservative Spring Forum, the government minister called on atheists to stop imposing their ‘politically correct intolerance on others’. And in a speech last year, he warned that traditional religious freedoms were being threatened by secularists.
