\n Detectives from the Metropolitan Police have launched an inquiry after receiving \u201ca number of reports\u201d following a Channel 4 News broadcast last week, the force said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Reform UK<\/a> denies any wrongdoing and will \u201cfully co-operate\u201d with the probe, a spokesman said.\n<\/p>\n \n The work, on Charlotte Street in the east end of Glasgow, is the latest in a string of works across the city by the artist.\n<\/p>\n \n \n Read More:\n<\/p>\n \n \n Rebel Bear has previously turned heads at Glasgow’s iconic Duke of Wellington statue, swapping the trademark cone for a tiny pigeon reading a newspaper.\n<\/p>\n \n A bronze pigeon appeared on the Duke\u2019s head, sporting its own mini cone and the \u201cDaily Dropping newspaper\u201d.\n<\/p>\n \n The Category A-listed statue of the Duke of Wellington on his favourite horse Copenhagen was sculpted by Italian artist Carlo Marochetti and erected in 1844.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n \n The artist posted on social media an image of the pigeon with the caption: \u201cThe dignified and undignified of beasts.”\n<\/p>\n \n The artist also previously paid tribute to Banksy<\/a> with a mural depicting the famous statue, replacing the duke with a rat tipping its cone hat.\n<\/p>\n \n The Rebel Bear has also previously painted a mural featuring US President Donald Trump<\/a>, Keir Starmer<\/a>, King Charles, and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor sitting in a sinking boat, showing the disgraced former prince climbing the wall and a flag which reads: “Epstein Isle.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In their latest work, Farage is depicted holding onto a flying pig with an overgrown nose reminiscent of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} (Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n
(Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n
(Image: Robert Perry)\n<\/p>\n