Religion and state: Parliament and Church of England
Fewer than one in 10 people in the UK go to church and research had found many people were largely indifferent to any kind of organised religion.
In a Daily Politics film, reporter Chris Mason looks at the links between church and state after David Cameron said Britain was a Christian country.
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