The Daily Telegraph

Council is for turning over Thatcher statue

- By Verity Ryan

CAMPAIGNER­S for a statue of Margaret Thatcher in Parliament Square were given fresh hope last night after councillor­s invited them to submit a new design.

Westminste­r council rejected a planning applicatio­n for a 10ft bronze of the former prime minister on the grounds that it did not have the backing of the Thatcher family because the Iron Lady is depicted in her House of Lords robes without her famous handbag. But the

 ??  ?? The rejected statue’s design did not have the backing of the Thatcher family
The rejected statue’s design did not have the backing of the Thatcher family

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