New UK government commits to building Holocaust memorial next to Parliament in London

Britain’s new Labour government says it will build a Holocaust memorial and learning center next to the Houses of Parliament in London.

First proposed nearly a decade ago under the previous Conservative administration, the Holocaust memorial was intended to honor the memory of the more than six million Jews and other victims killed by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government plans to bring forward the Holocaust Memorial Bill, which authorizes the cost for the project and disapplies a law dating back to 1900 that prevents its proposed location from being used as anything other than a public garden.

“We must do everything we can to ensure that the Holocaust is never forgotten and to fight antisemitism and all forms of hatred and prejudice in our society,” the government says in a briefing document accompanying the King’s Speech, setting out its legislative agenda.