PM issues apology on behalf of state in line with recommendation of report on decades-long ban
Rishi Sunak and Ben Wallace have formally apologised to the Commons for the decades-long ban on LGBT people serving in the UK armed forces, after the publication of a government-commissioned review.
Beginning the final prime minister’s questions before the summer recess, Sunak said the ban, which lasted from 1967 to 2000, “was an appalling failure of the British state, decades behind the law of this land”.
