Legislation to ban 1st Cousin Marriage

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Just saw this, Richard Holden has introduced legislation to ban 1st cousin marriage:
https://x.com/RicHolden/status/1865770931588612234

I think it is about time but wondering if the proposed legislation is likely to be supported or not.

This is really offensive, there are a lot of Muslims who don't marry first cousins or agree with first cousin marriages.

Values and customs or not

@JamTartLover

"This is really offensive, there are a lot of Muslims who don't marry first cousins or agree with first cousin marriages."

This is correct and the majority of the Pakistani community now do not have first cousin marriages- having fallen from 60% in 2010 to 46% today.

Sorry if I missed it, but where was this stat from?

@SheilaFentiman

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67422918.amp

Thanks for the link. It was for the Pakistani community in Bradford and it was first or second cousins, I see:

Ten years ago researchers studying the health of more than 30,000 people in Bradford found that about 60% of babies in the Pakistani community had parents who were first or second cousins, but a new follow-up study of mothers in three inner-city wards finds the figure has dropped to 46%.

Certainly seems from the article that young people in the area are getting more choice about their marriages, which is great.

Aside from whether you think it's a good bill or not, it's a 10 minute rule bill from a member of the opposition, which means it has almost zero chance of becoming law (there have been 4 since 2015 which have) It's actually permission to introduce a bill that is granted during this process anyway, not an actual bill itself.

The government introduce legislation and grant parliamentary time- they are extremely unlikely to do this in very full sessions for something not part of their programme.

These bills are really a chance for an MP to demonstrate they are busy raising issues with a very outside chance they could make an impact on the law. So it doesn't really matter what Labour think of the bill, it's not theirs so is very unlikely to progress.