prime minister promised the government would conduct a study into so-called "gay conversion" therapies before bringing forward plans to prohibit it.It is two years since the government, then led by former prime minister Theresa May, promised to bring forward proposals - as part of its LGBT action plan - to end the practice of conversion therapy in the UK.
That action plan built on the results of a national LGBT survey of more than 108,000 people, which found 2% of respondents had undergone conversion or reparative therapy in an attempt to "cure" them, and a further 5% had been offered it.Speaking on a visit to a Kent school on Monday, Mr Johnson described gay conversion therapy as "absolutely abhorrent" and said it "has no place in a.