Justin Welby: “It’s better to be woke than asleep”
He has denounced migration policy yet resists calls for gay marriage. Can the Archbishop of Canterbury unite a fraying Church?
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Kate Mossman
Kate Mossman is a senior writer at the New Statesman.
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