“FUNDAMENTAL” rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people could be eroded if they are not adopted into British law post-Brexit, transport workers warned this weekend.

Rail union RMT’s LGBT+ conference called for “urgent steps” to ensure protections currently included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights “will be enshrined in British law once the UK leaves the EU.”

A motion passed at the conference slammed the British government’s “dark and shameful history of persecuting LGBT+ people.”