Is Winston Churchill being replaced with wildlife on UK banknotes?

Replacing figures including Sir Winston Churchill with images of wildlife on the next series of Bank of England banknotes is “erasing our history”, Kemi Badenoch has said.

The Conservative leader, who described herself as a “huge fan” of Churchill, criticised switching to wildlife pictures as “a silly thing to do”.

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