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A Tory MP has launched a legal bid to ban Muslim women from wearing burkas in public places.
Philip Hollobone has tabled a private members' bill which would make it illegal for anyone to cover their face in public.
Mr Hollobone has previously likened full face veils to 'going round with a paper bag over your head'.
His Face Coverings (Regulation) Bill is the first of its kind in Britain, and is one of only 20 private members' bills drawn in a ballot for the chance to make it into the statute books.