The BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott said Archbishop Welby's comments would be interpreted as a rebuke to ministers.

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The BBC's religious affairs correspondent, Robert Pigott, accepts that Ekklesia's call for parity for the white poppy is provocative.

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But the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott said the new code of practice failed to meet many of their demands.

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Judges Victoria Graffeo, Susan Read and Eugene Pigott Jr. agreed.

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But conservatives were likely to back opt-outs, partly to establish a precedent for them to escape a liberal bishop in the future, says Robert Pigott, the BBC's religious affairs correspondent.

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Judges Graffeo, Read, Pigott and Jones concur.

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The BBC's religious affairs correspondent, Robert Pigott, says the new archbishop is inheriting a Church which has seen congregation numbers decline dramatically in recent decades, and which is struggling to promote a Christian message to an increasingly sceptical and secular society.

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