Royal welcomes
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited Nigeria last week. When was the last genuine royal tour of that country?
– The late Queen made a 20-day visit in 1956, four years before Nigeria’s independence. She went for three days in 2003 when she opened the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
– The then Prince Charles visited in 2018, when he joined a Peacebuilding and Interfaith Engagement, laid a wreath at the Commonwealth War Graves memorial in Abuja and attended a talk on poultry-rearing.
Faith in politics
A Liberal Democrat candidate in Sutton and Cheam has been deselected allegedly because of his Christian faith. How do religious groups tend to vote? A study from 2019 suggests the following:
– LibDems are most popular among Buddhists (15% of whom thought of themselves as Liberal Democrats in 2019) and Baptists (12%); least popular among Muslims (4%), Pentecostalists (5%) and Jews (6%).
– Conservatives are most popular among Jews (44%) and Anglicans (40%); least popular among Muslims (6%) and Buddhists (14%).
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