Of all the memorable speeches delivered by Winston Churchill, none was more influential than his 1946 address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Although Churchill was no longer Prime Minister by then, the speech threw out phrases that would echo down the years. Describing a new post-war division of the world between East and West, … Read more
Police and counter-protesters form a defensive ring around uncovered Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square as Black Lives Matter campaigners take to London’s streets for a fourth weekend Officers are guarding Sir Winston Churchill’s statue after the plinth was defaced during a BLM demonstration An estimated 600 people have gathered in Hyde Park today before … Read more
Police and counter-protesters form a defensive ring around uncovered Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square as Black Lives Matter campaigners take to London’s streets for a fourth weekend Officers are guarding Sir Winston Churchill’s statue after the plinth was defaced during a BLM demonstration An estimated 600 people have gathered in Hyde Park today before … Read more
Workers descended upon Westminster today to remove the metal boards covering Sir Winston Churchill’s statue ahead of the French president’s visit to London tomorrow. The team of staff, dressed in hard hats and protective clothing, set to work removing the protective box around the former Prime Minister’s monument just in time for President Emmanuel Macron’s visit … Read more
The move to board up the monument of Sir Winston Churchill has been compared by one Tory peer to the ‘fascist days of Islamic State’ in Syria. Tory Lord Marlesford said the targeting of statues amid fears of a clash between Black Lives Matters activists and far-right groups in the capital gave way to raising the … Read more
Winston Churchill’s picture has disappeared from Google’s list of British prime ministers as protesters call for his statue to be torn down. The wartime leader is the only prime minister to be left without a photo. Clement Attlee, Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin, who all served before Churchill, are still displayed with their images. Adolf … Read more
The Mail on Sunday today calls on our readers to help block any attempt to remove the statue of Sir Winston Churchill from outside the Houses of Parliament. Our petition urges Boris Johnson to make a public pledge that the monument to Britain’s celebrated wartime leader will never be moved after it was attacked by … Read more
Winston Churchill’s picture has disappeared from Google’s list of British prime ministers as protesters call for his statue to be torn down. The wartime leader is the only prime minister to be left without a photo. Clement Attlee, Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin, who all served before Churchill, are still displayed with their images. It … Read more
The Mail on Sunday today calls on our readers to help block any attempt to remove the statue of Sir Winston Churchill from outside the Houses of Parliament. Our petition urges Boris Johnson to make a public pledge that the monument to Britain’s celebrated wartime leader will never be moved after it was attacked by … Read more
‘Bring down Winston Churchill’s statue!’ Black Lives Matter organiser calls for ‘offensive’ memorial of wartime leader to be removed and put into a museum Imarn Ayton, a figurehead of BLM movement, feels the Churchill statue must go As a compromise she feels it should be placed into a museum, not in the streets ‘Any statues … Read more