U_K_ Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U_K_ ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.”
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ARMY VETERANS SACKED DURG 'GAY BAN' MAND APOLOGY OM RISHI SUNAK
* army gay ban *
“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP.
Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology. Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologised for the UK's historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the follows a damng report tailg "a vivid picture of overt homophobia at all levels of the armed forc".
The 268-page dossier found "shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts", as well as "abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, peremptory discharg" said the treatment of victims had "appallg nsequenc terms of mental health and wellbeg, homelsns, employment, personal relatnships and fancial hardship" ernment-missned pennt review to the service and experience of LGBT veterans who served the armed forc between 1967 and 2000 was rried out by Lord Etherton, former master of the rolls and head of civil jtice, was published on Wednday.