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Anti-Brexit campaign group Led By Donkeys is driving a giant ad van around Michael Gove'sSurrey Heath constituency to troll the cabinet minister about his past views on proroguing Parliament.

The viral guerrilla billboard campaign group is playing a previous interview the former environment minister had with the BBC's Andrew Marr two months ago where he said suspending Parliament in order to get a no-deal Brexit through would be wrong.

A one-minute clip posted by the group on its Twitter page starts with a video on the van beginning with a flashing "hypocrisy warning", and shows bystanders in Camberley watching Marr ask Gove if he thought it would be wrong because it would drag The Queen into it.

"I think it would be wrong for many reasons," replied Gove. "I think it would not be true to the best traditions of British democracy."

The van then drives off down the street before one man is seen getting into a car and saying: "To think we've got that idiot as an MP."

Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday (August 28), Gove insisted Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament had nothing to do with avoiding a Brexit debate.

"The Prime Minister is clear he wants to use a new parliamentary session in order to ensure the people's priorities are met," he said.

"But it's also the case parliamentarians will have plenty of time when we come back next week to debate Brexit."

Petition to stop proroguing Parliament reaches 1.5m

Parliament will be suspended days after MPs return to work in September, with a Queen's Speech taking place on October 14.

House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has already slammed the move, calling it a "constitutional outrage".

The Speaker said: "However it is dressed up, it is blindingly obvious that the purpose of [suspending Parliament] now would be to stop [MPs] debating Brexit and performing its duty in shaping a course for the country."

The announcement has also been met with anger from voters, with protests being held outside Parliament and Downing Street on Wednesday evening.

A petition started by Reigate resident and pro-EU campaigner Mark Johnston has already been signed by more than 1.5 million people.