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MORE THAN 170 MPs and peers have signed a letter in support of the proposal to build a Holocaust memorial outside Parliament, saying it will “stand as a testimony” to fighting hatred.

Politicians including Conservatives Dominic Raab, Nicky Morgan and Robert Halfon, as well as Labour’s Emily Thornberry, Yvette Cooper, Barry Gardiner and Lord Dubs, wrote to Westminster Council planning committee backing the National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, which is to be built in Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster.

Their support comes after the Royal Parks, which looks after the gardens, criticised the planning application for the £100m project, which is being considered by the council.

Written by the co-chairs of the AllParty Parliamentary Group on Holocaust Memorial, MPs Ian Austin and Bob Blackman, the letter urges the council’s planning committee to back the application.The letter says the memorial is necessary, “as the Holocaust moves from living memory into history” and as antisemitism rises.

Adding they can “think of no better location” for the project, which is being led by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, the politicians, also including members of the new Independent Group such as Luciana Berger and Mike Gapes, say it will allow people to “examine the Holocaust through British eyes”.