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Cambridge University’s “naked professor” will be taking to the stage for a nude show about Brexit.

Dr. Victoria Bateman, an economics fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Gonville & Caius College, will speak on the “naked truth” of leaving the European Union on Monday (January 14).

She has previously generated controversy online due to her naked protests, both on Brexit and on gender inequalities within economics.

The free talk at the J2 is timed to coincide with the parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal, using Dr. Bateman’s naked protests to examine how Britain will be “exposed and vulnerable” in a post-Brexit world.

The evening will end with a Q&A session, and the chance to show your opposition to Brexit by signing the “first living human petition”.

Guests have been told to “expect impassioned argument and nudity in equal measure”.

Dr Bateman’s protests first made headlines in 2016, when she walked naked into a faculty meeting of economists with “Brexit leaves Britain naked” written across her breasts.

Speaking to the News about her nude economics protest last year, Dr Bateman explained why she often gets criticism for her style of protesting - and why that just makes her commit to it more.

She said: “That criticism (which I always receive in response to my protests) does, I think, reveal quite a lot about society - that we’re not comfortable with women who confidently use their body for a purpose other than to please others.

"We’re happy to view images of nudes in art galleries - and to be confronted daily with images of women in advertising, but when a woman uses her body to speak out, it causes outrage.

“Society seems to be happy to be able to view naked women - but not for naked women to be able to talk back. Ultimately, I won’t let the criticism and abuse stop me - if anything it always makes me even more determined to highlight and challenge the underlying hypocrisy.”

Tickets to the event are free, and available from junction.co.uk/brexit-the-naked-truth. For obvious nudity based reasons, the show is only open to those aged 18 and up.