Yobs vandalise Margaret Thatcher statue for the THIRD time: £300,000 sculpture in former PM’s home town Grantham is daubed with words ‘Tories out’ as party chooses new leader
- The memorial, in St Peter’s Hill, was daubed with graffiti saying, ‘Tories out’
- Despite being subject to CCTV this is third time sculpture has been sabotaged
- Comes amid a rising political climate inside Thatcher’s much-loved Tory party
- Lincolnshire Police said the vandalism was being treated as criminal damage
A statue of Margaret Thatcher, which stands in her home town in Lincolnshire, has been vandalised for the third time.
The £300,000 memorial, in St Peter’s Hill, Grantham, was daubed with graffiti saying, ‘Tories out’.
This comes amid a rising political climate inside Thatcher’s much-loved Tory party – as they get ready to choose their new leader and UK’s next Prime Minister.
Lincolnshire Police confirmed the vandalism was being treated as criminal damage.
A statue of Margaret Thatcher, which stands in her home town in Lincolnshire, has been vandalised for the third time
The £300,000 memorial, in St Peter’s Hill, Grantham, was daubed with graffiti saying, ‘Tories out’
Despite being subject to CCTV surveillance, this is the third time that the sculpture has been sabotaged.
Hours after it was put up, on May 15 this year, a man was fined for egging the statue.
Two weeks later, the statue was vandalised again – daubed with red paint and a hammer and sickle was painted on the fence protecting it.
The sculpture, which sits on a 10ft (3m) high plinth, was offered to South Kesteven District Council after plans to erect it in Parliament Square in London were rejected.
The baroness was born in Grantham in 1925 and died in April 2013, aged 87.
The only previous memorial to her in the town was a plaque on the corner of North Parade and Broad Street to mark where she was born.
Backlash against the Tory party is rising after Liz Truss’s resignation as PM – where she was in office for only 44 days.
As the shortest-serving PM in history departs, the party are now scrambling to choose their next leader.
This is despite the fact that a Deltapoll survey for this newspaper found that if a General Election was held today, Labour would have a lead of 25 points – and an astonishing majority of 320.
The sculpture, which sits on a 10ft (3m) high plinth, was offered to South Kesteven District Council after plans to erect it in Parliament Square in London were rejected
Last night it was reported that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak held a crunch summit over a power-sharing pact that could unite the Conservative Party and finally set Britain on the path to prosperity last night that lasted three hours.
Mr Johnson met his ex-Chancellor at 8pm last night, where he argued that if he re-entered No 10 with Mr Sunak in a senior role it would avoid a divisive battle.
The crunch summit is believed to have ended shortly before 11.20pm. No details about the talks were immediately forthcoming. Plans for a face-to-face meeting yesterday afternoon were delayed, with both sides blaming the other for the hold-up.
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