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Government appoints anti-‘woke’ activist as V&A trustee

Rightwing commentator Zewditu Gebreyohanes is director of a group waging ‘politicised’ campaign against the National Trust

A rightwing commentator and activist who has a record of accusing arts and heritage organisations of “wokeness” has been appointed by the prime minister to a role at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in a move likely to inflame accusations that the government is waging a “culture war”.

Zewditu Gebreyohanes, who works for the right-leaning Policy Exchange thinktank and is also a director of a group that has been waging a campaign against perceived “wokeness” within the National Trust, is one of three new trustees of the V&A appointed by the prime minister via the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

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