Keir Starmer said it was ‘totally wrong’ for Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol to pull down a statue of a slave trader and dump it in the harbour, while saying the monument should never have been there in the first place. Answering questions on LBC radio, the Labour leader said the statue of Edward Colston should have been ‘brought down properly, with consent’, and placed in a museum.
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Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB QC MP is a British politician and former lawyer who has served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2020. He has been Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015.