‘Woke' bids to remove statues may be blocked

ANY attempts by councils to pull down historic statues could be blocked by the Government.

- David Maddox

The move is aimed at deterring their removal without proper debate and comes as housing minister Christopher Pincher said he has written to Sadiq Khan after one of the London mayor’s advisers branded Georgian architecture “offensive”.

Mr Pincher told MPs the Government is also looking at proposals from the Conservative Common Sense Group to erect more statues to honour of Victoria Cross and George Cross medal winners.

He said there had been attempts to have a statue of former prime minister and police force founder Sir Robert Peel pulled down in his Tamworth constituency.