{"id":73367,"date":"2025-08-11T21:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/11\/labour-peer-calls-for-removal-robert-clive-of-india-statue-foreign-office"},"modified":"2025-08-11T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:24:42","slug":"labour-peer-calls-for-removal-of-clive-of-india-statue-from-outside-foreign-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73367","title":{"rendered":"Labour peer calls for removal of Clive of India statue from outside Foreign Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thangam Debbonaire says Indian visitors to the ministry should not have to walk past \u2018historically inaccurate\u2019 bronze<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/aug\/11\/palestine-action-protest-arrests-reform-labour-keir-starmer-uk-politics-live-latest-updates-news\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A prominent Labour peer has called for a statue of Clive of India to be removed from its high-profile spot outside the Foreign Office in London, arguing that visiting Indian citizens and dignitaries should not be forced to walk past it.<\/p>\n<p>Thangam Debbonaire said the statue commemorating Robert Clive\u2019s bloody establishment of British rule presented the UK in a poor light and was historically inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/11\/labour-peer-calls-for-removal-robert-clive-of-india-statue-foreign-office\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thangam Debbonaire says Indian visitors to the ministry should not have to walk past \u2018historically inaccurate\u2019 bronzeUK politics live \u2013 latest updatesA prominent Labour peer has called for a statue of Clive of India to be removed from its high-profile &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,71,514,62,902,4,3380,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-empire","category-culture","category-heritage","category-india","category-labour","category-politics","category-thangam-debbonaire","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73368,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73367\/revisions\/73368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}