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Published 11:25 12 Feb 2021 GMT
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A statue of slave trader Edward Colston is retrieved from Bristol Harbour. (Photo: Getty)[/caption]
Perhaps the most notable demonstration of this kind took place in Bristol, when protestors tore down the statue of Edward Colston and plunged it into Bristol Harbour.
Colston was heavily involved in the slave trade, but has numerous public buildings, schools and roads named after him in the vicinity of Bristol.
Similar questions were asked in Wales, where fellow slave trader Sir Thomas Picton was venerated with a Cardiff museum's 'Heroes of Wales' exhibition.
That statue has since been removed, though a school in Haverfordwest is still named after him.
Patel saw the tearing down of statues as an attempt to re-write history.
"There are other ways in which those discussions can take place and, also, quite frankly I didn't support that attempt to re-write history. I felt that that was wrong."
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