Sandi Toksvig says ‘lives at stake’ after anti-gay Anglican church declaration

Broadcaster appeals to archbishop of Canterbury to reverse decision, saying: Let me talk you round'

The lives of LGBTQ+ people are at stake, the broadcaster and author Sandi Toksvig has said, after the archbishop of Canterbury affirmed the validity of a 1998 resolution that gay sex is a sin.

In a letter to more than 650 bishops attending the once-a-decade Lambeth conference on Tuesday, Justin Welby, who is also leader of the Anglican church, said the resolution, known as Lambeth 1.10, was not in doubt".