It has been one of Welby's personal causes, which he has driven as hard as he could.
In other countries, private member's bills are used for personal causes of individual MPs, not for government programs.
But very quietly, Mr. Singer has also given significant sums to personal causes that run counter to the agenda of many conservatives.
Lest anyone doubted the reason, Mr Redstone blamed the actor's espousal of personal causes, notably his adherence to Scientology, for the ending of a $10m a year deal.
After January's terror attacks at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and at kosher supermarket, which left 17 people dead, the French president, François Hollande, vowed to make the fight against racism one of his main personal causes.
In his 1933 Harvard lecture, the poet also said, "there may be personal causes which make it impossible for a poet to express himself in any but an obscure way".
Committing to 2 per cent would also provide him with cover to pursue one of his most important personal causes, scrapping the Trident nuclear deterrent, an issue he has campaigned on for nearly 50 years.
People tend to use the Web site GoFundMe to set up fundraising campaigns for deeply personal causes — to treat a lame pet, for example, or to cover a niece's medical bills.
