Labour youth call for divorce

The Labour Youth Forum has encouraged the Labour Party to propose divorce legislation in its electoral manifesto.

Forum president Daniel Micallef said during the annual general meeting: "Civil rights are one of the main issues for our progressive party. In a country that has been an EU member for five years, certain rights issues cannot be ignored."

He added that, although the Forum believed measures needed to be taken to ensure the family unit was strengthened, the fact that "new and different realities" existed in society could not be ignored. The option of divorce would allow people, whose lives had taken a wrong turn, to get another chance, he concluded.