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She also confirmed that the cloak she wore for the visit was steeped in British free-speech history and referenced 17th-century political figures John Lilburne and Richard Cromwell.

She tweeted a link to a Wikipedia page for John Lilburne, an English Leveller who was a friend of Cromwell but whose opposition to the policies of his regime led to his trial for sedition in 1649.

Among the events a comic anthology will celebrate Tyneside’s radical civil rights history, which includes John Lilburne, who in the 17th century coined the phrase “free born rights”, influencing the constitution of the US; suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who died after being hit by the king’s horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby; “Red” Ellen Wilkinson, Labour MP for Middlesbrough East in the 1920s; and the Jarrow marchers.

Holding a lager between fingers tattooed "Freeborn", in tribute to Sunderland's 17th-century "leveller" Freeborn John Lilburne, Turner certainly doesn't look like a Tory.

John Lilburne - or Freeborn John- was a hero to many non-conformists All presses required licensing and Lilburne's pamphlets satirising state religion were effectively unpublishable in England.