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A billboard which targeting Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put up in Somerset.

Anti-Brexit group, Led By Donkeys, has become notorious for erecting billboards across the country featuring quotes previously said by politicians, including North and East Somerset MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg.

One of the group's main targets has been the former UKIP leader and current Brexit Party leader, Nigel Farage.

Ahead of this month's European Parliament elections, the group has placed billboards in locations in Coventry and South Wales, with slogans such as "attack the NHS" and "less maternity pay" next to comments attributed to Brexit Party members.

(Image: Nigel Farage/Twitter)

One of them has now appeared in Taunton, based off East Reach on its junction to Eastbourne Road.

The poster reads: "The European Parliament, in their foolishness, have voted for increased maternity pay."

The message reportedly comes from a tweet he shared in October 2010.

Led By Donkeys later explained the billboard in a tweet.

"Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage hasn't published a manifesto," it said.

"Until he does we have to assume his public statements are his party's policies. Like less maternity pay for new mums.

"See thebrexitparty.com for more."

Mr Farage has said his party does not plan to publish a manifesto until after the European election.

In an appearance on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Mr Farage reacted angrily to questions about his past comments on NHS privatisation, his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his denial of the facts about climate change.

(Image: Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

He told the broadcaster: "All you want to do is go back to stuff from years ago, why don't we talk about now in British politics?"

He commented further during a campaign visit on Monday, describing the line of questioning as "a whole series of quotes and misquotes from things I'd said up to 10 years ago that were utterly unrelated to what is happening on Thursday week (the day of the European election)".

Nigel Farage visited an Essex nightclub during a campaign stop on Thursday, in which he said: "The only way is Brexit."

He added: "I thought if we won the Brexit battle our politicians would simply have to deliver it.

"I've now learnt that this battle is about far more than Brexit; this battle actually is about democracy.

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"It's about whether we are a democratic nation, it's about whether we have a bond of trust between us and those that govern us, it's about how the rest of the world looks at us.

"We used to be an admired country.

"This Prime Minister and our Parliament have turned us into a laughing stock."

The Brexit Party has been approached for comment about the billboards.

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