In response to the backlash, Northampton-born Frampton wrote on social media yesterday: The people in power who are trying to isolate and divide us arent the ones who will feel its effects the hardest.

Theyre not the ones queuing at food banks, not the ones navigating universal credit and not the ones having to deal with systematic fear and oppression and hate crimes at the hands of privileged politicians who say what they want without fear and consequence.

We are not being looked after and our best interests are not being served by those in government. This is their job and theyre not doing it well enough.

This act was a metaphor for what this government is doing to our country, except what I did was present it in sight.

No Boris Johnsons were hurt in the making of this slowthai performance. I dont condone violence in any form.

slowthai was nominated for his album Nothing Great About Britain, which casts a critical eye over life in the modern UK.

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