PAINTINGS of Lord Nelson have been taken down from Parliament and replaced with Labour figures including Yvette Cooper in a woke purge of historical figures.
Two portraits of the British naval hero, including one showing his death at Trafalgar, were removed after a review into links to slavery.
Images of Spanish Armada-battling Sir Francis Drake and ex-Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell are also gone.
Reform UK’s Richard Tice accused Labour of being “shameful fake patriots”, saying: “They are showing their true colours: they hate Britain and our glorious history.”
While national heroes are being erased, new portraits are up of Labour figures including Home Secretary Ms Cooper.
She previously made the case for boosting the representation of women and minorities in the Parliamentary Art Collection as part of a Labour mission to “modernise” Westminster.
Former Labour minister Baroness Hoey has also landed a spot, alongside suffragist campaigners Millicent Fawcett and Barbara Duval.
But four paintings of Elizabeth I have been taken down, including ones marking the defeat of the Spanish Armada, as well as a print of anti-slavery leader William Wilberforce.
It comes after PM Sir Keir Starmer reportedly ditched portraits of Tory PMs Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher — and playwright William Shakespeare — from Downing Street.
A Parliament spokesman yesterday said: “There have never been any plans to remove specific artworks, individuals or subjects from display or change the long-term siting of Parliament’s works of art, and we do not recognise reports which say otherwise.
“The Parliamentary Art Collection is a working collection, which means that a significant number of its 10,000 items are in continual rotation – for example due to maintenance works in an area, changes to the occupancy of offices or spaces as well as conservation needs – with many of the items referenced already back on display. Reporting of where works of art are situated at a specific moment in time is not an accurate indication of policy.”
