UK government to consider changing age of consent after allegations against Russell Brand

Deputy prime minister says change would be a massive step but ‘deserves proper consideration and scrutiny’

The government has said it will consider calls to change the age of consent after a woman waived her right to anonymity to publicly claim she was raped by Russell Brand as a 16-year-old schoolgirl.

Mia Latter, now 37, alleged she had been orally raped by the jailed comedian when she was a teenager and he was 30 years old.

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