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Daily Record
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Politics
Laura Parnaby & Kaitlin Easton

Boris Johnson abandons plans to ban conversion therapy as campaigners slam U-turn

Campaigners slammed Boris Johnson for throwing millions of people from the LGBT community "under the bus" by U-turning on a pledge to ban conversion therapy.

The Prime Minister abandoned plans to outlaw the controversial therapy which attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation.

LGBT rights activists criticised Johnson and say his decision will "horrify people right across the country".

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