A broad ban on conversion therapy could criminalise Christian parents who encourage their children to follow the Bible in its teachings on gender and sexuality, a leading QC has said.

A global LGBT group has thrown its support behind a statement calling for ages of consent to be lowered around the world to allow adolescents to engage in sexual activity freely and without “stigma”, it has been revealed.

Humanists UK and the All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) are calling on the Government to legalise assisted suicide.

Attempting to tackle sexual violence by children while violent pornography remains readily available online is like treating “cocaine addicts while supplying them with cocaine”, Floella Benjamin has said.