Portraits of Winston Churchill and other renowned British prime ministers have been removed from the walls of parliament after the election profit of Labor 2024.
After winning 412 seats in the Lower House, Sir Keir Starmer and Labor returned to the government for the first time in July 2024 after the general elections.
Starmer had promised to make a large number of changes if they are chosen, but one of the first things on the Labor Agenda was apparently a re -effect of the decorations of parliament, De Telegraaf unveiled.
Only a few days after Starmer's election profit, five portraits of William Gladstone, the four -time conservative Prime Minister, were picked up from the walls of parliament, together with five photos of the former Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
And a few days later, the new government also removed portraits of the Duke of Wellington under a large number of other famous British figures before he “removed drawings, prints and photos of Winston Churchill.”
Five images of the former prime minister were dragged down from the parliamentary estate, including one photo of the Portcullis House, the head office building of the Parliament, which Churchill showed in the Cenotaph in 1945, according to the Telegraph.
Portraits of many famous British figures have been removed since Labor won the elections, including photos of Winston Churchill
Only a few days after Starmer's election profit, five portraits of William Gladstone, the four -time conservative prime minister, were picked up from the walls of parliament, together with five photos of the former Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
Every new government has the choice of the parliamentary art collection, which contains more than 10,000 portraits, drawings and photos from which the buildings can be decorated.
After the news about the re-decoration, a spokesperson for the British Parliament said: 'There have never been plans to remove specific works of art, individuals or topics from the display or change to the long-term placement of the artworks of parliament, and we recognize Not reports that say otherwise.
'The parliamentary art collection is a working collection, which means that a considerable number of the 10,000 items is in constant rotation – for example due to maintenance work in an area, changes in the occupation of offices or spaces and preservation needs – with many of the items to that again be referred. '
“Reporting where works of art are at a specific time in time is not an accurate indication of the policy.”
The collection underwent an audit after the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020, and it is thought that many of the deleted photos were chosen because of their ties with the colonial past of Great Britain.
Portraits of Lord Salisbury, poet John Milton, Charles I, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were also removed.
It was reported by MailOnline in 2023 that nearly 200 works of art had disappeared in the enormous parliamentary collection.
The House of Parliament Collection has approximately 10,000 pieces, ranging from the medieval period to the 21st century
Paintings, drawings, age -old photos and even a life -size sculpture belong to the pieces that could not be found.
It was not made clear whether one of the documents was stolen, but an application for freedom of Mail Online revealed that 199 pieces could not be found.
A portrait from 1801 by William Pitt the Younger, a 19th-century sketch by William Gladstone and a six-foot high sculpture by Queen Victoria belonged to the photos that were missing.
