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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Harry Taylor

Conservative conference gender session ‘curated hatred’ – Tory politician

Andrew Boff wears a T-shirt that reads ‘Trans Rights Are Human Rights’, after he heckled a session at Conservative Party conference on gender identity (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

A Conservative politician has criticised a session on gender identity at the Conservative Party Conference as “curated hatred”, after he heckled the panel including former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies.

Andrew Boff, who has been a Tory assembly member since 2008 and led the party in the body for three years, had shouted from the front row that the views being presented were “one sided” and the discussion had wrongly been billed as a “debate”.

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