Welsh Labour could risk making a "great mistake" after bankrolling a woke push to "decolonise" David Lloyd George's rural childhood home, a former MP has suggested.
Ex-Tory MP Damian Collins, who penned a biography on the Welsh-speaking premier, Rivals in the Storm, said efforts to alter the hero of Wales's past risked overlooking his "boundary-breaking" legacy.
Collins told GB News: "We should celebrate Lloyd George's life - not apologise for it.
"He broke boundaries as the first cottage-born Prime Minister, and as a great social reformer.
Welsh Labour could risk making a "great mistake" by funding the decolonisation push, Collins warned
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"As a Welshman, Lloyd George believed in the rights and greatness of small nations... That's why he risked his life opposing the British campaign in South Africa during the Boer War.
"It was also why he believed that we should fight the First World War to defend the rights of free nations.
"The cottage in Llanystumdwy where he grew up displays the portrait of Abraham Lincoln, his great hero, who freed the slaves in the United States of America.
"There is a real danger that by not understanding our history and appreciating the great challenges that people overcame in the past, it simply becomes an extension of politics today. That is a great mistake."
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"We should celebrate Lloyd George's life - not apologise for it," Collins told GB News
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His comments followed those of Welsh Tories leader Andrew RT Davies MS, who said: "As NHS waiting lists hit seven consecutive record-breaking months, this utter nonsense of meddling with our history continues to be Labour's focus.
"Labour's anti-racist Wales action plan has become a distraction from the people's priorities."
The cottage, now the Lloyd George museum, had fallen into a taxpayer-funded nation-wide "anti-racist" drive.
Said drive has taken consultancy from "Re:Collections", an anti-racist project run by the Association of Independent Museums - which has been awarded grant funding by the Welsh Government.
Re:Collections advises museums to ensure that "Bame [Black and Minority Ethnic] perspectives and experiences are treated as a natural part of the histories that museums document and explore".
The Lloyd George Museum has been told to change its approach to history
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David Lloyd George grew up in tiny LlanystumdwyPUBLIC DOMAINIt also urges museums to ensure that "collections, activities and exhibitions present a greater diversity of Bame perspectives, histories and experiences".
As a result, the Lloyd George Museum has been told to change its approach to history - while LGBT displays have also been pencilled in for future exhibitions as it undergoes "modernisation and reinterpretation" works.
But a Welsh Government spokesman has defended their Labour leadership's plan, saying: "Our anti-racist Wales action plan is built on the values of anti-racism and calls for zero tolerance of all racial inequality.
"We funded the AIM Re:Collections programme which helps museums deliver the goals of our anti-racist Wales action plan.
"The action plan emphasises the importance of representing and reflecting the history and culture of black, Asian and minority ethnic people to ensure that their contribution to Wales is recognised."
