London MP calls for ‘unsettling’ Union flags to be taken down from lamp posts

Sarah Sackman is Labour’s Minister for Courts (Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire)

A London Labour MP has said she is ‘calling full time on flags’ following the end of the 2026 World Cup, urging people to remove them from lamp posts.

Sarah Sackman, who is the government’s Minister for Courts and Legal Services, said people in her community have described the flags as ‘unsettling, intimidating and othering’.

Writing in her local newspaper, she said: ‘Those who live and spend time in Temple Fortune and Golders Green will know that St George’s and Union Jacks were hoisted on public lamp posts, without permission, long before the World Cup.

‘It is now time for them to come down.

‘Since September, huge numbers of flags have been put up on our p...