Tory MP says sex ban is ‘ridiculous’ as couples urged not to romp outdoors during lockdown

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A TORY MP has blasted the Government’s ban on people in different households having sex as “ridiculous” as another minister urged people not to do it outdoors.

Tobias Ellwood this morning got into a fuming clash with GMB host Piers Morgan over the row, but admitted: “I’m happy to say it’s ridiculous.”

Brits from different households cannot meet up inside under new coronavirus laws

Tobias Ellwood admitted the policy was ridiculous

The outspoken journalist and his co-star Susanna Reid called the move “a massive state intrusion into people’s private lives.”

It comes a day after the Government rolled out lockdown guidelines that include a clause which completely bans two people from separate households gathering in a private place.

Gatherings of up to six people are allowed – as long as they are outside – and people stay 2metres apart.

It reads: “No person may participate in a gathering which takes place in a public or private place indoors, and consists of two or more persons.

“There is a gathering when two or more people are present together in the same place in order to engage in any form of social interaction with each other, or to undertake any other activity with each other.”

Brought in to help support the new rules about friends and family having to meet up outside, the clause puts a categorical legal end to lockdown sex with others from outside your home.

And this morning minister Simon Clarke said “we obviously do not encourage people” trying to avoid breaking the law by making love outdoors.

Asked if sex was illegal indoors but legal outdoors, he told LBC: “It’s fair to say that the transmission risk of coronavirus in the open air is much lower than in internal spaces.”

But he added: “We obviously do not encourage people to be doing anything like that outside at this time, or any other.”

But he said that “we obviously want people to be with the people they love as soon as possible.”

Public sex is already illegal for any couples hopeful of a workaround to see their lover.

Piers Morgan engaged in a furious row with Tory MP Tobias Ellwood over the Government’s new lockdown sex ban

Previous regulations did not include the wording about private places as travel restrictions categorically urged people to stay in their homes except for food shopping and exercise.

People caught travelling without a reasonable excuse could be prosecuted, but the wording did not include what happened when you were in another home.

Now both people will technically be able to be prosecuted under the coronavirus regulations as both have committed an offence by having a two person gathering from separate households – in a private place.

But Downing Street said police were not able to barge into people’s homes and enforce the law.

They can only come into a property if they suspect criminal behaviour is taking place.

 

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