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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver

Home secretary says Banksy’s Glastonbury migrant boat ‘celebrated loss of life’

An inflatable boat is passed over the audience's heads.
The Banksy inflatable migrant boat artwork was released during Idles’ Glastonbury set. Photograph: Safi Bugel/The Guardian

The home secretary, James Cleverly, has condemned a Banksy artwork of an inflatable boat holding dummies of migrants at the Glastonbury music festival as a “celebration of loss of life”.

The artist was confirmed to be behind the mock migrant boat being released into the crowd during a set by the Bristol punk band Idles. It was crowd-surfed above the audience during a song that began with the lyrics “My blood brother is an immigrant. A beautiful immigrant”.

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