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Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Deputy PM Angela Rayner vows meeting over 'troubling' cases of human remains being sold on Instagram

The Deputy Prime Minister branded the selling of human remains online “abhorrent” after hearing that colonial-era body parts are being listed for sale by auction houses and on social media.

Opening Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy said bones could be bought on websites such as Instagram, Facebook, eBay, Etsy and Gumtree.

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