Adding another light switch and lamp holder

Yeah, I'm beginning to realise that. So how to i make it right? why doesn't the loft switch have a neutral? If I were to take a look at the other swiches in my house would i find others without neutral wires?
Most likely. A switch does not need a neutral, and if one is present it will just be looped out in a connector block. The neutral will be at the light fittings. The Wiki explains it well.

So... i would need to run a cable from the loft light itself and connect it to the hall light?

Is my current setup safe? I no it's not ideal, but is it safe.

The Wiki?
 
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Let's start again.

Forget what you have done.
The existing cable that goes to the loft light switch. Can you access the other end of it?
 
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Ah yes. Just as a suspected. I should get into the loft and somehow get a cable (L/N/E) from the existing light fitting (cdilng rose) and bring it to the new hall light I have installed. Then I need to drop another cable from the new light to the new switch.

What I've done is take a cable from the existing light switch for the loft and connect it to the new switch for the hall. I've then taken a cable from the new hall switch to the new hall light fixure.
 

Single pole, I'll think you'll find.

I don't think SP is actually labelling anything.
 

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