‘If my boyfriend did what my pastor did, I believe police could investigate’. The campaign to close a serious gap in UK law
- Posted on March 31, 2026
- By The Guardian
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‘If my boyfriend did what my pastor did, I believe police could investigate’. The campaign to close a serious gap in UK law
England and Wales pioneered the criminalisation of coercive control, but it doesn’t apply outside of intimate or family relationships. Why stop there, asks deputy head of Guardian Opinion Barbara Speed
