Trans rights protesters daub graffiti including 'child killer' on Wes Streeting's constituency office
Police have launched an investigation after the Health Secretary's HQ in Ilford North had its windows smashed and the words 'child killer' daubed on the front in graffiti.
Trans Bash Back, a 'trans-led direct action project', claimed responsibility for the stunt in a post on the BlueSky social media platform on Friday.
Sharing a photo of the front of Mr Streeting's office shortly after it had been damaged, they wrote: 'Don't want action? Don't kill kids.'
The MP for Ilford North has addressed the vandalism but did not reference the accusations made by the activists.
'From day one as Ilford North's MP I've had an accessible and visible constituency office to serve my local community,' he wrote on X.
'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.'
Trans Bash Back describes itself as a 'non-violent direct action group' which takes 'risky, and rarely legal' action.
On social media, the group has said it 'to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them.
'We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us'.
One local business owner told The Telegraph that 'glass was broken and there's paint everywhere'.
'It's happened a few times – he's only just had the window replaced,' they added.
Mr Streeting has previously been clear about his stance on the gender debate.
In an interview with Talk Radio last year, he said: 'Men have penises, women have vaginas; here ends my biology lesson.'
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'Police were called at 10.16 on Friday, Aug 1 to reports of criminal damage at an office in Woodford Avenue, IG4.
'Officers attended the scene, where they discovered that the address had been attacked with paint and the windows had been damaged.
'No one was injured.
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