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Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Catholics from the throne.

The requirement that the succession automatically pass to a male would also be reformed, making it possible for a first born daughter of Prince William to become his heir.

Hailed as the biggest change in Sharia law in Britain for 100 years, a married Muslim couple will now have equal rights.

A husband will have to waive his right to polygamy, allowed under Islamic law, in the new contract which has been described as “revolutionary”.

Some see the new law as a step in the direction of the formation of a European form of Islam.