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A 38-year-old man has been arrested after the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Westminster was defaced with graffiti branding the former prime minister a “Zionist war criminal”.The Metropolitan Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage on Friday morning.Other phrases including “Stop the Genocide” and “Free Palestine” were sprayed in red paint on the bronze sculpture in Parliament Square, central London.

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00:05Well, well, well, well.
00:40It is vile, it is disgraceful.
00:43It's an affront to democracy, it's an affront to the history of this country.
00:47The people need to be caught, they need to be held to account.
00:50When we were in office, we toughened up the sanctions that could be given to those people
00:55who desecrate war memorials and the like.
00:57The book needs to be thrown at this one.
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