Police can't burst into your bedroom and fine you for having sex, No10 has confirmed. Sex in your house with someone from outside of your household is set to become illegal today.
The government is introducing new lockdown measures in England that prevent people from socialising (or gathering) with one person from outside of their household in a private space.
Up until now the person visiting a house for sex would have been the one in breach of the measures. But now both people would technically be able to be prosecuted under the law, with Amendment Regulations being introduced in Parliament on Monday.
Downing Street confirmed that the police do not have the powers to storm into anyone's home - unless they suspect "serious criminal