Westminster council scrambles to celebrate Easter after only putting up Ramadan display

Mar 30, 2024 by Jill

by Albert Tait and Robert Mendick, Telegraph:

Labour-run body rushes to put up Christian decorations after Tory councillor Paul Swaddle pointed out Islamic holy month had been honoured.

Imagine the scramble at Westminster City Hall on Thursday morning as officials hunted for Easter eggs big enough to fill one of the building’s ground-floor windows.

The problem at the council started on Wednesday evening, when The Telegraph approached with a complaint from one of its most senior councillors. “Why,” Paul Swaddle, the leader of the minority Conservative group, wanted to know, “was there a Ramadan celebration in the window of Westminster City Hall” but not a corresponding display for Easter?

The query, it now appears, set minds racing in what is probably the most high-profile local authority in all of the UK: its main offices a stone’s throw from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.

“I am sure we will be doing something,” a source at the Labour-run council replied on Wednesday night, as it dawned on officials that Easter, the holiest of Christian holidays, had seemingly been forgotten.

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