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Wes Streeting deluged with homophobic hate mail since becoming defence secretary

BBC News Politics · 26 August 2026 at 22:21

Wes Streeting deluged with homophobic hate mail since becoming defence secretary

Homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967, but a ban continued in the armed forces until 2000.

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