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Gordon Brown announced yesterday that he would not be allowing a conscience vote on any of the controversial moral issues within the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. In so doing he ignored requests for a free vote from the leader of the opposition , from other MPs including those within his own party, from 108 professors with varying views on the bill itself and from Cardinal O'Brien . The government is now headed for it biggest confrontation yet with the Catholic Church.