The shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy sought to draw parallels between Mr Trump’s tacit support for white supremacists during riots in Charlottesville in 2017 and the Prime Minister’s criticism of left-wing protesters who defaced a statue of Winston Churchill during protests in the UK last summer. Protesters vandalised the statue to war time British leader in Parliament Square during social unrest last summer. The demonstrators daubed the words “was a racist” on the statue, promoting an angry response from the Prime Minister.
He said that although Winston Churchill’s views may nowadays be “unacceptable to us”, he nevertheless remained a hero for having saved the country from “fascist and racist tyranny”.
He went on to write in a tweet: “We cannot try to edit or censor our past.
“We cannot pretend to have a different history.”
In an article for The Guardian, Ms Nandy wrote: “Two years later (after Charlottesville) we had the prime minister here trying to start a culture war over a statue of Churchill and also exactly the same pattern of behaviour in relation to trans rights.
“In 2019, No 10 was polling the red walls to see if it could start a culture war in northern towns over LGBT rights.”
The shadow Foreign Secretary praised the incoming President Joe Biden, describing him as “a woke guy”.
She argued that Mr Biden’s victory provided an inspiration to Labour on how to win an election without compromising on progressive values or being drawn into culture wars.
She said: “Joe Biden – he’s a woke guy, he appointed an amazingly strong woman of colour who is also pro-choice as his running mate, he mentioned the trans community in his victory speech, he stood up for the Black Lives Matter protesters, he spoke out about the policing of that movement, and he’s never shied away from standing up for his values.
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