An international competition to design a “striking” national Holocaust memorial to stand next to the Houses of Parliament was launched by David Cameron today.
It will be built in Westminster’s Victoria Tower Gardens by the Thames and is due to be completed by next year.
Mr Cameron told MPs: “The whole House will want to join me in marking Holocaust Memorial Day.
"It is right our whole country should stand together to remember the darkest hour of humanity.”
He said the memorial would “stand beside Parliament as a permanent statement of our values as a nation”.
A new learning centre to promote the battle against prejudice will also be built in London.
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said the pledge would be “warmly received” and showed that “the Holocaust will forever form a part of our national consciousness."
