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Theresa May is being branded a "threat" to peace, hospitals and schools in a new nationwide billboard campaign.

Anti-austerity campaigners are plastering more than 40 boards with the hard-hitting advert from today, 17 days before the general election.

The £65,000 cost has been funded by a single donor, Alexander Wright. Organisers have not elaborated on who he is, and no further details are currently available from the Electoral Commission.

The People's Assembly group is now crowdfunding cash to put up more of the adverts before polling day.

The posters feature the Tory leader's face beside the words: "I am a threat - to your local hospital, to your child’s education, to your standard of living, to your job security, to your pension, to your peace and security."

The ad adds: “Don’t vote Conservative on June 8th”.

Organisers said six landlords rejected the advert due to its content, including in Birmingham, Southampton, London and Leeds.

But more than 40 are due to be erected everywhere from Cardiff to Manchester to Sheffield.

Some of the sites are in key marginal seats, the organisers said.

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People's Assembly national secretary Sam Fairbairn said the poster was a response to the Tories' "manifesto of misery".

He added: "She is a threat to everything we rely on from cradle to grave.

"The crisis in the NHS was created by the Conservative government and they're doing nothing to address it. She's snatching free school lunches off infants while her plans to restructure our education system will leave schools without proper funding. University students are being strapped with lifelong debt."

Full list of places hosting the poster