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Led By Donkeys

January 2024

  • Illustration of an African man in a knitted hat looking at refugees carrying an inflatable dinghy across a beach with a hand-drawn sun half-blocked by jagged lines

    ‘Well-camouflaged dictatorship’: Rwandans fear for safety while dirty tricks campaign undermines critics

    Kagame’s government targeted journalists who uncovered killings, disappearances and torture linked to the regime

March 2023

  • Kwasi Kwarteng

    ‘He’s a great guy’: Kwasi Kwarteng told fake firm he could introduce them to Boris Johnson

  • Screengrabs of Matt Hancock and Kwasi Kwarteng looking serious

    Top Tory MPs ask for £10,000 a day to work for fake Korean company

July 2021

  • Red hearts painted on the national Covid memorial wall, Albert Embankment, London.

    Wall of love: the incredible story behind the national Covid memorial

    How bereaved campaigners, with help from the activists Led By Donkeys, produced a powerful tribute to the UK’s pandemic victims

January 2020

  • The new coin that will go into circulation on 31 January 31, the day that Britain will leave the European Union.

    Being short-changed by Brexit 50p coin

    Letters: The new 50p coin does not give us much to celebrate, writes David Nowell, while Margaret Simon will be donating any she receives to a refugee charity. Plus letters from Nicholas Cutler and Simon Brodbeck

October 2019

  • Led By Donkeys, left to right: Ben Stewart, James Sadri, Olly Knowles and Will Rose.

    Led By Donkeys: ‘There is a political power in laughing at these people’

  • A Boris Johnson clown in the style of the horror film It.

    Brexit the horror film: billboards mock government's 'get ready' campaign

September 2019

  • A Led By Donkeys billboard in central London.

    Get ready for Brexit satire: Led By Donkeys launches billboard contest

  • Gove's face plus quote in sand

    Gove portrait 'visible from space' drawn on beach in Brexit protest

August 2019

  • collage of numerous anti-brexit people and placards

    The long read
    ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain

    The long read: They hate Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. They no longer trust the BBC. They love civil servants, legal experts and James O’Brien. And now, consumed by the battle against Brexit, hardcore remainers are no longer the moderates

May 2019

  • “Led By Donkeys” activists left to right; James Sadri, Oliver Knowles, Will Rose and Ben Stewart in the Birdcage pub, north London.

    Led By Donkeys show their faces at last: ‘No one knew it was us’

  • Dawn Foster

    Why the Led by Donkeys billboards won’t change anyone’s mind on Brexit

    Dawn Foster

February 2019

  • ‘Love Jez, h8 Brexit’ reads one of the slogans on the billboard in the Labour leader’s Islington constituency.

    ‘Love Jez, h8 Brexit’: billboard graffiti show ire at Corbyn's stance

  • A quote by Theresa May on a billboard in Highbury, north London.

    Four men with a ladder: the billboard campaigners battling Brexit

January 2019

  • A poster put up by the pro-remain group Led By Donkeys

    Billboard campaign reminds voters of MPs' Brexit promises

    Posters repeat Gove claim UK will hold all the cards and Rees-Mogg call for second vote
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