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Eco-activists strip NAKED in Commons during Brexit debate
12 eco warriors caused a huge commotion as they took off their clothes and tried to glue themselves to the walls to protest against climate change
ECO-activists sparked chaos in the Commons tonight as they stripped NAKED during a Brexit debate.
12 eco warriors had to be dragged out of the public gallery by police after they glued themselves up to the glass wearing just their knickers - to protest against climate change.
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They were only in the gallery for a matter of minutes before being dragged out by Commons police and shoved into handcuffs.
But the group fought back fiercely and several had to be drafted in to escort them all out - including one man who was carried out horizontally.
Stunned MPs stared in disbelief as the starkers men and women chanted about the environment, as authorities desperately tried to get them to leave.
All 12 were later arrested on suspicion of outraging public decency in the biggest breach of Commons security in years.
Some of them had painted their bodies with environmental slogans, but MPs carried on the debate as usual while the protest went on.
Labour MP Peter Kyle, who was talking at the time, joked about the "naked truth" as politicians struggled to pay attention to his speech.
Embarrassed MPs didn't know where to look, but some stopped to take photographs - despite it being against Commons rules.
Ex-Labour boss Ed Miliband was caught on camera looking incredibly awkward.
But Speaker Bercow urged the debate to carry on anyway.
Cops later returned to the Commons to take photographs of the bum smudges and glue marks which had been left on the glass.
Two of the group wore full grey body paint and elephant masks to bring the message that politicians neglect of the climate crisis has become an ‘elephant in the room’, the protesters said today.
The mad activists said they were inspired by the suffragettes’ protest in the same building over 100 years ago, and even stuck their hands to surfaces in the public gallery using superglue to try and stop themselves being chucked out.
James Heppey MP joked: "Parliament just got a bit more nuts!"
And Andrea Jenkyns added: "There will not be a clothes shortage with No Deal!"
Activist Mark Øvland, 35, said today: "We are impelled to act in this way because the most important and pressing issue of our time is being flagrantly and recklessly ignored by our government and media.
"By undressing in parliament, we are putting ourselves in an incredibly vulnerable position, highlighting the vulnerability that all of us share in the face of environmental and societal breakdown.
"There is an elephant in the room and it is demanding attention."
And Iggy Fox, 24, a wildlife biologist said: "I want a future, and right now they are burning it like there's no tomorrow.
"I won't stop causing disruption until the government does its duty to protect the people from disaster."
The protesters demanded that ministers cut carbon emissions and set up a new body to fight climate change.
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