General Article Child marriage is still legal in the UK. At last, the first step has been taken to ban it

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Not many Britons know that in England and Wales, 16- and 17-year-olds can marry with parental ‘consent’. For ‘consent’ read ‘coercion’.

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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