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LGBT Conference: Ukip exclusion from Pride defended by LGBT activists
Party’s bigotry makes it unsuitable, TUC hears

LGBT campaigners stood by their decision not to let Ukip march at this year’s Pride yesterday, declaring that its discriminatory policies went against the event’s ethos.

Speakers and delegates at this year’s Trades Union Congress LGBT conference proudly supported the exclusion of Nigel Farage’s party from the march.

Thousands of complaints poured in earlier this month after the announcement of this year’s Pride line-up revealed a Ukip contingent marching along historic LGBT rights groups.

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