Reports today suggest Andy Burnham has been invited to send ministers to cross-party talks on a private member’s bill which would make marriage and sexual intercourse between first cousins illegal. The bill, tabled by Conservative MP Luke Evans in June, follows a similar piece of legislation by fellow Tory MP Richard Holden which received widespread attention last year. But the Evans bill is the first to address not just marriage but sex between first cousins.
Banning cousin marriage won’t make it disappear
