Artwork removed from National Portrait Gallery after row over Churchill’s role in Bengal famine

23 juin 2026 | Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
Turner prize winner Helen Cammock withdraws piece after 50 peers criticise claim former PM ‘starved people’ An artwork by a Turner prize-winning artist has been removed from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after a row about the role Winston Churchill played in the 1943 Bengal famine. The (…)
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