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The White Poppy is a challenge to government-backed remembrance, writes SYMON HILL

ON Remembrance Sunday, Theresa May will lay a wreath at the cenotaph in memory of people killed in war.

This is the same Prime Minister who is happily selling weapons to Saudi Arabia for use against civilians in Yemen.

May’s government is arming despots around the world and ploughing billions into military spending. The Tories’ savage cuts to the welfare state constitute mass violence against the British working class.

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