Labour's left uneasy with leader's view on tearing down Colston statue
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Keir Starmer condemns ‘criminal damage’ but says we can’t have ‘a slaver on a statue’
Labour leader Keir Starmer sparked unease among some on the left of his party on Monday, as he condemned as “completely wrong” the tearing down of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol at the weekend.
Both Starmer and shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said they shared the sense of injustice that has brought more than 100,000 people out onto the streets of the UK to join Black Lives Matter protests in recent days. Continue reading...
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