The artwork depicting a boat of migrants was visible during Idles' set at the festival
Banksy has hit back after a Conservative minister claimed his inflatable migrant boat artwork at Glastonbury was ‘vile’.
During Idles’ set at Glastonbury on Friday night, an inflatable life raft holding dummy migrants was carried across the crowd. This was in reference to the small boats of migrants travelling across the English channel. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made ‘stopping the boats’ and tackling the illegal border crossings a key pledge.
The stunt drew criticism from Home Secretary James Cleverly, who said: “There are a bunch of people there joking and celebrating about criminal actions which costs lives, people die. People die in the Mediterranean, they die in the Channel. This is not funny. It is vile. It is a celebration of the loss of life in the Channel.”
He added: “They know that had they supported us, they voted over 130 times to prevent us taking greater control of our borders, the hypocrisy of the left on this issue is breath-taking and to joke about it, to celebrate it at a pop festival when there have been children dying in the Channel is completely unacceptable.”
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