Anti-monarchy campaigners attacked the scheme as a 'shameful waste of money' at a time when most public services are struggling for cash
Government spending £8 million on portraits of the King for schools, police stations and council offices
Public institutions across the UK will be entitled to claim one official framed photograph of His Majesty as part of theTo mark the new reign, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Dowden, said the portrait would “serve as a visible reminder in buildings up and down the country of the nation’s ultimate public servant.”
Graham Smith of campaign group Republic said: “This is a shameful waste of money. At a time when a majority of local councils are raising taxes and cutting public services, when schools and hospitals are struggling, to spend even £1 on this nonsense would be £1 too much.
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