Ex-chancellor Sajid Javid has tabled a private member's Bill to increase the minimum age to be wed from 16-years-old, arguing that the law 'permits child marriage by the back door'
The legal minimum age to get married in England and Wales could be raised to 18 under backbench legislation being tabled by former chancellor Sajid Javid.
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