A combination of public interest polling and a citizens’ assembly process could play a vital role in doing this.

Once that has formally happened at the assembly it will be up to the British government to judge if the brake has been used appropriately.

“Fabrication, assembly, testing and final integration of a new spacecraft is a painstaking endeavor that requires great attention to detail,” Steve Stich, the manager at NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said in a statement.

Some of these changes would need ratification by at least half of India's 28 state assemblies.

The last time the topic was voted on at General Synod in 2022, only 7% of the Church of England’s national assembly said they supported a change in the law.