Cambridge University Students Reject Remembrance Day Poppies Saying They ‘Glorify War’ express.co.uk

Cambridgeshire Mayor James Palmer said the decision brought “great shame” to the university city and shows “disdain” for the Armed Forces in the centenary year of the end of the First World War.

Cambridge University’s Student Union had been asked to do more to promote Remembrance Sunday in a motion aimed to “ensure that Remembrance Day becomes a well-established and well-marked event across the university”.