Tory politician removed from conference after heckling Braverman for 'homophobic nonsense'
A protester has been removed from the Conservative Party Conference, after heckling Suella Braverman during her speech
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A longstanding Tory member has been removed from the Conservative Party Conference, after heckling Suella Braverman during her speech.
Andrew Boff, a member of the London Assembly, was marched out of the conference centre by security.
He told GB News he has been a "loyal Tory for 50 years" but accused Braverman of talking "arrant nonsense".
Speaking about the incident this evening, Braverman said: "Andrew Boff’s heckles were silly but I think he should be forgiven and let back into conference."
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As he was escorted off the premises, Boff said: "This trash about the gender ideology is making our Conservative party look transphobic and homophobic.
"This is not what the Conservative Party is about."
When asked whether he is still a Conservative, he said: "Of course I am".
He said he heckled Braverman during her speech because she was talking "arrant nonsense about gender ideology, about wokeness and all the rest of it."
Boff added: "Our party has a proud record of standing up for LGBT+ rights and she's destroying it.
"It's time she sorted out her own department rather than talking this trash about trans people."
He accused the Home Secretary of "scapegoating trans people, gay people, anybody who doesn't fit her model.
"She's dog whistling and she's also presiding over a department that's failing dismally in processing asylum seekers".
Asked about what action the party will take against Boff, a spokesperson said: "He's not coming back in."
During her speech, Braverman warned of a "hurricane" of migrants coming to the UK.
The Home Secretary accused past Governments of being "too squeamish about being smeared as racist" to tackle the problem head-on as she vowed to take action to reduce the numbers coming to Britain.
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During her speech, Braverman warned of a "hurricane" of migrants coming to the UK
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Warning that current immigration was "too high", she told party members that she would do "whatever it takes to stop the boats and deter bogus asylum seekers".
She continued: "The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the 20th Century was a mere gust compared to the hurricane that is coming.
"Because today the option of moving from a poorer country to a richer one is not just a dream for billions of people, it is an entirely realistic prospect."