A life-long Labour supporter has painted over a mural showing David Cameron throttling a nurse following local concern that it was an unapproved advert.
Tony Davis, 73, and his wife Veronica painted the decoration on the side of their house in Little Stoke, near Bristol, before the General Election.
The artwork showed the Conservative prime minister with one hand gripping the throat of a health worker, alongside the quote ‘NHS: Safe in his hands?’
South Gloucestershire Council’s planning enforcement team had sent a letter to Davis in April, warning him that its planning enforcement team ‘considered the mural to be an advertisement without the necessary prior advertisement consent’.
The town hall had called on Davis to remove the painting within 14 days. Davis has now painted over the mural, telling the BBC that there were neighbours ‘who did object to it’.
‘They are a pleasant couple... so I thought: “Well, I've proved a point. I'm just going to live and let live”,’ he added.