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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Scottish Parliament apology after woman wearing suffragette scarf ejected from Holyrood gender debate

The Scottish Parliament officially said sorry after a woman wearing scarf bearing colours of the Suffragette movement was ejected from a gender reform debate.

The member of the public was asked to remove her purple, green and white scarf as she attended the meeting in Holyrood on Tuesday, before being told to leave when she refused.

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