Led By Donkeys: "Liz Truss was fair game"
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Will Dunn meets the political pranksters who sent Liz Truss fleeing in rage.
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From films detailing Conservative hypocrisy projected on Parliament buildings, to remote-controlled lettuce banners unfurling over the head of the former Prime Minister, Led By Donkeys have been a regular fixture of political activism over the past decade.
Now with a Labour government in place after 14 years of Tory rule, will the group - with their predominantly progressive politics - change their approach?
The New Statesman's Will Dunn meets Led By Donkeys in this extended interview.
Led By Donkeys: Adventures in Art, Activism and Accountability is published by Thames & Hudson and available now.
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| 1:47.2 | The New Statesman. |
| 1:50.7 | Welcome to the New Statesman Podcast. I'm Will Dunn. A 10 minute film |
| 1:59.2 | about the life and lies of Boris Johnson projected onto the houses of Parliament, the National |
| 2:05.0 | COVID Memorial Wall, and most recently Liz Truss leaving the stage at her own event |
| 2:10.6 | after the unraveling of an eye-crash the economy lettuce banner. |
| 2:14.8 | You might not realize it, but you very well might have seen the work of Led by Donkeys. |
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