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Rewriting history in 2021
Robert Jenrick wants to make sure you definitely don’t look at his track record and preferably look somewhere else instead, says KEITH FLETT
Community Minister Robert Jenrick

COMMUNITIES Minister Robert Jenrick announced in the Sunday Telegraph in mid-January and subsequently in the House of Commons that he plans to make any changes to historic statues and monuments subject to planning laws.

The considerable number of statues and monuments that are already protected (mainly against property developers) are already subject to law. 

The historian Dan Hicks tweeted that he doubted that statues which are not already covered would be found to be worthy of being so.

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