Esher and Walton Conservative MP Dominic Raab was targeted by campaigners using video footage of his previous statements yesterday (March 25).

The Led by Donkeys campaign is a crowdfunded project aimed at re-publicising the previous words and statements of key British politicians, often in relation to Brexit.

On Monday, March 25, the campaign hit Mr Raab's constituency towns of Esher and Walton.

Campaigners set up portable television screens which played several clips of statements previous made by Mr Raab, who served as Brexit Secretary July-November 2018.

The videos used visual and audio footage from the Leading Britain's Conversation (LBC) radio show.

One clip played by the Led by Donkeys television screens in Mr Raab's constituency had received over 449,000 views since it was shared on Twitter yesterday.

It focused on a segment when LBC Host James O'Brien reviewed statements made by Mr Raab about Brexit and other issues, including disabled persons benefit allowance, funding for which has been cut under the Conservative Government.

In one statement made by Mr Raab in the footage, the Esher and Walton MP said: "My name's Dominic Raab, and I'm a Tory. I don't support the Human Rights Act and I don't believe in economic and social rights."

Mr O'Brien then speculated "what would happen to disabled and sick people" without those rights.

The following clip in the footage showed the former Brexit Secretary appearing to suggest that calls to reverse spending cuts for disabled benefits amounted to a "childish wishlist".

He made the remarks while responding to a disability activist during a televised debate aired on the BBC News Victoria Derbyshire programme during the 2017 General Election.

In the video the activist, identified as "Fiona", confronted Mr Raab about disability benefit changes.

Fiona said: "With the Work Capability Assessment...it causes almost universal, permanent health damage. It kills people. I have friends who were institutionalised after going through it. It is an act of violence and we are dying."

Mr Raab responded, saying: "Unless you've got a strong economy creating the revenue it's just a childish wishlist. We try and do our best to get the balance right."

After Mr O'Brien aired the exchange on LBC recently, Mr Raab announced he was blocking the radio show host on Twitter.

Mr Raab said: "Always flattered to be targeted by the Looney Left, James, but you can take your anti-Brexit rants and your student politics elsewhere - you’re blocked."

The Work Capability Assessment scheme was introduced in 2008, and has since combined with the amalgamation of welfare benefits under the Universal Credit programme which launched in 2017.

A report by Philip Alston, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, was published in November 2018.

It examined the impact of austerity economic policies in the UK, and found that the UK had breached four UN human rights agreements relating to women, children, disabled people and economic and social rights as a result of the Government's economic policy of austerity.