UK PM Removing Historic Portraits

November 26 2024

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

There have been quite a few articles published over the past month and a half concerning the recently elected UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's changes to the paintings hanging in No. 10 Downing Street. In October, it was reported that the PM had been removing historic portraits of Elizabeth I, Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare (amongst other historic political figures) in favour of landscapes. More recently, a group of 14 MPs has been former as part of a Commons Modernisation Committee, which amongst other things will look at making the paintings in the Houses of Parliament more diverse.

To quote one of the articles from The Telegraph:

The Prime Minister prefers landscapes to 'people staring down at him', apparently. 'When I was a lawyer, I used to have sort of pictures of judges. I don't like it. I like landscapes.'

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