Scaffolding placed around Winston Churchill statue and Cenotaph in London ahead of protests

Wartime prime minister’s figure was among monuments targeted during march last weekend

He said that protests so far had been mostly peaceful and that “99.9 per cent of the people who attend have no intention of committing violence”.

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