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What are the most ‘unsettling’ artworks to hang in 10 Downing Street?

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issue 07 September 2024

The art of politics

Keir Starmer moved a portrait of Lady Thatcher from one room at 10 Downing Street to another because he found it ‘unsettling’. Some more possibly unsettling artworks that have hung at No. 10:

— ‘More Passion’, by Tracey Emin, featuring the words ‘More Passion’ in neon, was installed by David Cameron in 2011.

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