Methodists ban BNP

| Saturday, 5 March 2005 Source: Times Online

Members of the British National Party will be excluded from hustings on Methodist Church property before the next general election, it emerged this week. The Methodist Church has advised congregations not to invite "extremist" parties to election hustings on church premises. Anthea Cox, the Church's co-ordinating secretary for public life and social justice, said: "People worry that they have to give a platform to all the candidates in their constituency. In fact, the law only obliges them to avoid bias towards any one party."