A charity set up to continue the legacy of Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill has erased his first name and pictures of him from its website.
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has become the Churchill Fellowship, stating: ‘Many of his views on race are widely seen as unacceptable today’.
A list of his achievements has been removed from the website, as well as a 1,400-word tribute that referenced a ‘much loved leader’ with a ‘bulldog spirit’.
His face no longer features on the site, and mentions of ‘Winston Churchill’ have been minimised.
In a news item, the charity’s chief executive Julia Weston said its original name was ‘confusing, as it did not reflect what we are about’.
The trust hands out grants and fellowships to advance learning in different fields. It was set up on the day after Churchill’s funeral in 1965.
Its volunteers said the change was ‘rewriting history’. One told the Sun: ‘ He was voted, by the people, as the greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002 but is now erased from his own charity by the woke brigade.
‘You can’t imagine what he would have to say about it all but I’m sure he wouldn’t think it was Britain’s finest hour.
‘It beggars belief that the man who saved this nation in our darkest hour finds himself cancelled in this way.’
A statement on the trust’s ‘our story’ page said: ‘Today there is controversy about aspects of Sir Winston’s life. Many of his views on race are widely seen as unacceptable today, a view that we share.
‘At the same time, he is internationally admired for his wartime leadership in saving Britain and the world from Nazism.
‘We acknowledge the many issues and complexities involved on all sides, but do not accept racism of any kind.
‘As a forward-looking charity aiming to improve lives throughout the UK, what we take from Sir Winston’s example are values for the future: global learning, public service and, above all, a belief in the potential of all individuals.’
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