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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent

Clive Lewis urges Keir Starmer to pledge to reduce size and cost of royal family

King Charles III
King Charles III at Sandhurst military academy on Friday. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/AP

Keir Starmer has been urged by a leading republican campaigner and former shadow cabinet minister to pledge to reduce the size and cost of the royal family, as a symbol of his vision for a “renewed Britain”.

With King Charles’s coronation less than a month away, the Labour leader was challenged by Clive Lewis to “make a stand” and embrace the change symbolised by the crowning of a new monarch.

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