Vandalism fear must not block Iron Lady’s statue says May

A STATUE of Margaret Thatcher should not be blocked over concerns that it could be vandalised, Theresa May said yesterday.

Plans to put a monument to the former premier in Parliament Square are under threat because of the fears.

But the current Prime Minister said: ‘What I’m very clear about is there should be no suggestion that the threat of vandalism should stop a statue of Margaret Thatcher from being put up.’

Backers of the memorial to Britain’s first female prime minister, who died in 2013, hoped it would join statues of Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi and other political greats in Parliament Square. It was scheduled to stand on a stone plinth on Canning Green.

But the Public Memorials Appeal Trust saw its planning application to Westminster City Council derailed after objections from the Royal Parks Agency, a