The Labour leader has said it was 'completely wrong' for Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol to pull down a statue of a slave trader and dump it in the harbour, but said the monument should never have been there in the first place. Answering questions on LBC radio, Starmer said the statue of Edward Colston should have been 'brought down properly, with consent', and placed in a museum
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Keir Starmer: pulling down Edward Colston statue was wrong ► https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/08/keir-starmer-edward-colston-bristol-statue-wrong

Labour's left uneasy with leader's view on tearing down Colston statue ► https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/08/labour-left-uneasy-with-leaders-view-on-tearing-down-colston-statue

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