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An audience member has been escorted out of Suella Braverman's speech at the Conservative Party Conference.
A video shared to social media showed the man being walked out of the hall in Manchester flanked by security personnel. Another clip showed the protester shaking his head and protesting: "There’s no such thing as gender ideology" and: "This is trash," before being tapped on the shoulder and led out of the room.
The man has since been identified as Andrew Boff, a Conservative member of the London Assembly, who took issue with some of the Home Secretary's musings as she addressed members this afternoon (Tuesday, October 3). Speaking out following the incident, Boff slammed Braverman's comments and said it made the Party appear transphobic.
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"Our party has a proud record of standing up for LGBT+ rights and she is destroying it," Boff said following the incident, adding he had been a "proud" member of the Party for more than 50 years. "This Home Secretary was basically vilifying gay people and trans people by this attack on LGBT ideology, or gender ideology," he continued.
"It is fictitious, it is ridiculous. It is a signal to people who don’t like people who are LGBT+ people."
As Boff was removed from the room, Braverman could be heard saying: "If we don't challenge this poison, things just get worse." She then claimed people were being "chased out of their jobs" for "saying a man can't be a woman".
And while the Tory member's outburst was enough to get him swiftly escorted from the premises, some people have commented Boff's protests were so quiet, they couldn't even hear him.
Posting to X (formerly Twitter), one person wrote: "Audience member just escorted from the main hall by police during Suella speech. Very quiet if protesting. We couldn’t hear his message clearly." Another wrote: "Unbelievable, that wasn’t even a heckle. Mild disagreement gets you de-conferenced."
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