(ANSA-AFP) – LONDON, November 12 – King Charles III, flanked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Opposition Leader Keir Starmer among others, today paid homage to the British who died in all wars on the occasion of the Memorial Day victory in the First World War. Remembrance Day – Remembrance Day, also called Poppy Day due to the tradition of pinning the poppy symbol to the buttonhole, symbolizing those killed in war, is celebrated on the Sunday in November closest to Armistice Day, November 11th – It was celebrated by at least 10,000 British and Commonwealth veterans who gathered outside the Cenotaph, the war memorial in Whitehall, central London. Here the king and other representatives of the institutions laid floral wreaths after two minutes of silence were observed at 11 a.m. local time.
Downing Street, in a statement released earlier in the day, called on the country to be “united” on the day when “communities come together to remember those who have died in their name.” “Let recent events serve as a stark warning that we cannot take for granted the peace we are witnessing and so dearly earned,” Sunak said, pointing to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, but also to the clashes and conflict demonstrations on Gaza and Israel that swept through London yesterday, including near the war memorial. For her part, Interior Minister Suella Braverman regretted that “week after week the streets of London are infested with hatred, violence and anti-Semitism.” (ANSA-AFP).
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