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A former British conservative minister and current deputy renewed his impulse in Parliament last week by the legislation that prohibits the marriage of the first cousins, which caused the opposition of the ruling Labor Party, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a British-Musulman deputy.
The conservative deputy Richard Holden said during a parliamentary debate: “A marriage between cousins has significant health problems, many of which are not even connoisseurs until after birth.” He added: “When generation is practiced after generation, there is a significant multiplier effect.”
The adverse effects for health on children of first cousin marriages have been established in medical research. Holden added that “the real impacts on the opening of our society and the rights of women in our country are significant. After all, there are significant dynamics in sharing the same set of grandparents.”
Holden urged Starmer to “think again” about the blockade of his legislation to advance. Starmer responded to Holden, declaring “we have taken our position on that bill, thanks.”
The Prime Minister of Britain, Keir Starmer, celebrates a press conference after organizing a summit of European leaders in downtown London on March 2, 2025. (Julian Simmonds/Pool/AFP through Getty Images)
The Daily Mail reported According to a study of 2024, that almost 46% of women in the Pakistani community in Bradford had a “common ancestor.” A government study showed that the number was 62% 10 years before.
Although Prime Minister’s office did not say why they are against the coding of the bill, a Starmer spokesman told Fox News Digital: “The risks of advising experts in the marriages of cousins are clear are clear. In terms of legislation and what the government established in the King’s speech After the elections, of course, we do not want people to enter cousin marriages. “
He continued: “We are focused on ensuring that each part of the government focuses on complying with the problems that matter to the British public. We establish our legislative priorities. In the King’s speech“
Given the great influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa to Scandinavian countries, the BBC reported that Norway has banned the marriage of cousins, while a prohibition is expected to enter into force in Sweden next year.
The houses of Parliament are seen in London on June 12, 2024. (Mike Kemp/in pictures through Getty Images)
The failure to encode a prohibition of interfamilium marriage among the first cousins has outraged many prominent conservative voices in the United Kingdom.
Ben Habib, president of the Great British Political Action Committee, told Fox News Digital: “Liberalism in the United Kingdom is out of control. In the search to allow people to do what they want, sanity is leaving aside. It doesn’t matter if what you want to do is deeply harmful. If you are a minority, you have a protective blanket that gets around your surroundings and is recommended to continue.”
Women walk through a store in Bradford, England. A recent study of the United Kingdom said that the number of Pakistani women in Bradford involved in Primo marriage had fallen to 46%. Ten years before, that number was 62%, according to a study funded by the Government. (Daniel Harvey González/in images through Getty Images)
Habib added that “marrying cousins was a practice that came out of Western culture over a hundred years ago. Now he has returned with revenge. Why? Because we have had a massive immigration of cultures that have not maintained the rhythm of ours. Instead of demanding that they adopt our approach, the British government allows them to continue this weakening practice.
During one of the parliamentary debates on the bill, the independent deputy Iqbal Mohamed, who rejects a legislative prohibition on the marriage of the first cousins, admitted “there are documented risks for the health of the marriage of the first cousins.” He said this is a problem that “needs greater awareness.” He, however, said that the way of addressing this “is not to train the State to prohibit adults from marrying each other.” He does not believe that a prohibition is “effective or applicable.”
According to medical experts, children of prime cousins marriages are highly vulnerable to a autosomic recessive genetic disorder,
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Mohamed said: “The matter must be addressed as a problem of health awareness and a cultural problem in which women are forced against their willingness to submit to marriage.”
According to Mohamed, it is estimated that from 35% to 50% of all sub -Saharan populations prefer or accept the marriage of cousins, and is common in the Middle East and southern Asia. In July 2024, British The voters disconnected In the 14 -year reign of the Conservative Party and voted in the Starmer leftist Labor Party.
