MP who sought 'spine' to back Gaza ejected again

She refused to apologise in New Zealand’s parliament

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A New Zealand lawmaker was thrown out of parliament for calling her opponents spineless during a fiery debate about a Palestinian state was ejected again on yesterday when she refused to apologise for the remark.

Chlée Swarbrick, co-leader of the left-leaning Green Party and part of the opposition bloc, was ordered to leave parliament on Tuesday over a speech in which she called for government lawmakers “with a spine” to endorse her proposal for New Zealand to impose sanctions on Israel over the war in Gaza.