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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Rishi Sunak apologises for past ban on LGBT people serving in military

A member of the British army carrying a transgender flag during a pride parade in London.
A member of the British army carrying a transgender flag during a pride parade in London this month. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Getty Images for Pride In London

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”.

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