After calls to change the law, how would staggered age of consent work?

One of Russell Brand’s accusers has said the age of consent should be staggered (Picture: AFP)

Anger over the alleged behaviour of older celebrities with young women has opened up a new debate over the effectiveness of the age of consent.

Since 1885, the age at which people can legally consent to having sex in the UK has been set at 16.

If two people are older than that, it’s completely legal for them to consensually have sex – no matter how wide their age gap might be.

But following allegations that David Walliams would groom teenage girls before having sex with them when they turned 16 – which he denies – some people have voiced their unease at the current law.

Today, the issue was also raised in the Read Entire Article