Nick Soames, veteran Conservative MP and ex-Minister, remains a public figure after long service; linked to a persistence row at the National Portrait Gallery over a Bengal famine-related controversy.
A 40-minute video installation by Helen Cammock at the National Portrait Gallery has sparked a broad debate over Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine of 1943. Cammock defends the work as a dialogue about who is celebrated in public memory, while critics call the claims ideologically motivated and historically contentious.