Police were called to the primary school earlier today in Birmingham as tensions flared over the curriculum. Officers were outside Anderton Park Primary, where campaigners opposed to LGBT teaching claimed roughly 600 children had been kept away from classes today. Jess Phillips, MP for Birmingham Yardley, wrote on Twitter: "Our equalities laws protect us all. "You can have a child in your class who has same-sex parents, you can have children who have two parents, children who have single parents, children who come to school with their grandparents, children who are with foster carers - all sorts of different families. "Kids should be able to come to school, they shouldn't have to walk past protests... teachers shouldn't have to walk past protests to come to school."

Source: Daily Mirror May 20, 2019 12:23 UTC