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Boris Johnson’s partial U-turn on conversion therapy does not go far enough, activists say – UK politics live
Boris Johnson agreed that a Conservative government would ban conversion therapy - a practice which involves trying to change someone’s sexuality or identity, which mostly happens in certain religious settings. Since then the government has consulted on the ban, but campaigners, and some news organisations, have flagged up claims that a ban could unintentionally criminalise clinicians and therapists helping people - particularly teenagers - dealing with gender dsysphoria.Last night ITV’s Paul Brand revealed that the government had dropped plans for a ban.