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Watch: Vivienne Westwood’s bizarre Assange interview

Dame Vivienne Westwood took part in an unusual protest on Tuesday, to try and prevent the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. To raise awareness for Assange’s plight, the 79-year-old fashion designer spent part of the day suspended in a cage outside the Old Bailey, dressed in a yellow suit to symbolise the canary in the coalmine.

Westwood told reporters that ‘If the canary died they all got out. Julian Assange is in a cage and he needs to get out. Don’t extradite to America.’ Assange is currently being held in HMP Belmarsh.

But if you thought the protest was based on a slightly confused mixed-metaphor, that did not even compare to Westwood’s post-protest interview.

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