She said that the government would issue a call for evidence next month on taxes or charges for single-use plastics.

In addition, a member can vote on spiritual matters at congregational meetingsusually whether to issue a call to a new minister to join the congregation.

Since the union issued a call for closures over the weekend, it said that 150,000 members had joined the campaign.

Orthodoxy issues a call to those who are searching and those who are lost, those who are broken and grieving, those in despair.

The prime minister issued the call to industry to scale up the production of existing models and design safe new machines last week.