A charity founded after the death of Sir Winston Churchill has provoked anger by rebranding itself blaming his ‘views on race’.
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has removed pictures of the wartime leader from its website and is changing its name to the Churchill Fellowship.
Trustees have agreed to change its name to the Churchill Fellowship and erase him from its website as part of an initiative by Julia Weston, the charity’s £100,000-a-year chief executive whose face appears repeatedly across the website when Sir Winston’s does not. Weston had said previously in an email: ‘For some time we have known that our previous name was confusing as it did not reflect what we are about.’ She also said the charity would focus more on ‘addressing inequality and protecting the environment’.
An official statement on the trust’s website last night said: ‘Today there is controversy about aspects of Sir Winston’s life. Many of his views on race are widely seen as unacceptable today, a view that we share’. Left-wing activists have gunned for Sir Winston Churchill for years, accusing him of racism, highlighting his links to Britain’s colonial past and even comparing him to Adolf Hitler, the evil fascist he helped defeat. His statue in Parliament Square was also defaced during London’s BLM protests.
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