Henry Tulse News Today

Michael Gove is spearheading new ‘street votes’ law to give residents greater say on housing developments and other proposed changes

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which was in the Queens Speech, will enshrine a name change vote in law. 45 streets and statues are in the process of being cancelled in London.

First it was statues, then it was books by white people. Now radicals have cricket and knitting in their sights as they aim to decolonise Britain - and theyve used millions in taxpayers cash to do it.

Councils could be banned from changing street names without the "consent" of local people as part of the government's crackdown on the so-called "cancel

Ministers say the changes are needed to stop councils erasing centuries of local heritage at the whim of campaigners

Lambeth was accused of trying to "cancel" an entire London suburb called "Tulse Hill".

Tulse Hill could be renamed if residents agree, because of its namesake’s links to the slave trade.

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SIR – The continuing refusal of Nato to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, for fear of a direct confrontation with Russia (Letters, March 23), is correct.

Tulse Hill is the latest place name that faces being scrubbed from the map for its ‘troubling links’ to the past – but it won’t be the last