It came as London Mayor Sadiq Khan set up a task force earlier this month.
Sir Keir explained a “conversation” needed to take place and suggested this needed to be done “city by city, region by region”.
He said: “I think each community, whether it’s London, or anywhere else is entitled to have a conversation about what it wants, in terms of statues and street names.
Nigel Farage has issued a warning to Keir Starmer (Image: GETTY)
Labour is trailing the Conservatives in the polls (Image: GETTY)
“And it needs to be decided, I don’t know, city by city, region by region.”
Toyin Agbetu, who was appointed to the Mayor of London s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, has been accused of racism over controversial blog posts.
The Government should not allow Sadiq Khan s statues commission to rewrite British history
If planning laws are not enough to prevent monuments being toppled without the consent of local people, the Government may have to intervene
21 February 2021 • 6:30am
Sadiq Khan has assembled a commission, many of whose members appear to have a distorted and ideological view of British history, to rule on the validity of London’s landmarks. What gives him the right to do that? The statues, street names, and monuments of the capital are important to the whole nation, not merely to unelected activists. The Mayor of London has failed in even his primary responsibilities – with the bankruptcy of the public transport network just one of the catastrophes to befall the city during his time in office. His Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm is at best a pointless distraction, and at worst a shameful attempt to rewrite British history against the wishes of the majority of the UK popula
A new initiative is to be taken in Balbriggan to help tackle crime and antisocial behaviour and build a safer town for everyone.
The Balbriggan Leadership Group will meet to ratify the establishment of a new Safe Balbriggan Pillar in the Our Balbriggan plans for the town s future at their quarterly meeting this Wednesday (February 17).
At their meeting on October 20 last, the Leadership Group agreed to a proposal to establish a fifth pillar of the Our Balbriggan Rejuvenation Plan 2019 - 2025 focusing on community safety in response to community feedback seeking investment in this sphere.
Officials from Fingal County Council, the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána have worked together over the past few months to establish a framework for a pillar focused on community safety in Balbriggan
| UPDATED: 12:16, Fri, Mar 19, 2021
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Housing minister Christopher Pincher has written to Mr Khan to express concern that he is using £250,000 of taxpayers money on a statues commission made up of 15 mainly leftwing activists at a time when he claims he is putting up Londoners’ council tax bills. He pointed out that Labour has backed the destruction of British history and heritage with the party leader Sir Keir Starmer backing the removal of Sir Edward Colston’s statue by a mob of leftwing Black Lives Matter activists in Bristol and the Labour group on the Local Government Associ