EXCLUSIVE: Health Secretary Wes Streeting's office targeted with bizarre 'coffin art installation'

Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s office has been targeted again - this time with a bizarre art installation.

Artwork featuring several cardboard coffins has been hung across the windows and doorway of the office in Ilford.

Scores of plastic tea lights have also been laid out on the pavement in front with a large cardboard gravestone in the centre.

Each one features writing and pictures mainly criticising the Labour MP's actions in respect of the trans community.

An onlooker who filmed and photographed the scene today said: "His office has been targetted a few times now, but whoever made this must have had a hell of a lot of spare time on their hands. It must have taken hours to make and quite a while to put in place."

At least two of the coffins feature an image of Sam Gould, the former aide of Mr Streeting and councillor, who in April was spared jail after exposing himself to a teenage girl and following her.

The 33-year-old had previously pleaded guilty to two separate counts of exposure at Barkingside Magistrates' Court in Ilford.

He was sentenced at the same court to 22 weeks' imprisonment suspended for two years.

It is not clear who is behind the latest stunt, but at the start of the month trans activists claimed responsibility for smashing the windows of the office and spraying the words “child killer” across it.

Protest group Bash Back said the action was in response to Mr Streeting’s “continued abuse of trans people in the medical system”.

It also accused Mr Streeting and the government of intending “to erase trans people from public life, and will go out of their way to do so”.

In response, Mr Streeting posted on X that there was a live police investigation.

He wrote: “From day one as Ilford North’s MP I’ve had an accessible and visible constituency office to serve my local community.

“Repeated criminal damage is unfair to my staff and an attack on democracy.

"I will not be commenting further while there is a live police investigation."

In a statement after the first incident, Bash Back added: “In the months since the puberty blockers ban, we have seen huge backpedals in the healthcare rights afforded to trans people - and young people especially - in an NHS system that was never kind to us in the first place.

“Under Streeting’s rule, GPs have been banned from conducting blood tests on trans patients accessing HRT, and trans people have been banned from accessing hospital wards that fit their gender, leading necessarily to poorer quality of care across the board.

“Streeting, along with NHS England, the EHRC and Hilary Cass, have paved the way for state-mandated conversion therapy, which has since led to the Department for Education’s proposed introduction of a Section 28 style bill, preventing discussion of transness in the classroom.”

Mr Streeting, the Labour Party and the Met Police have been contacted for comment.

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