{"id":371696,"date":"2026-01-15T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:01:08","slug":"reforms-laila-cunningham-london-is-not-a-muslim-city-and-id-like-to-see-christianity-celebrated-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371696\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform&#8217;s Laila Cunningham: &#8216;London is not a Muslim city and I&#8217;d like to see Christianity celebrated more&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another b\u00eate noir is the multicultural celebrations for various religious holidays, including Eid in Trafalgar Square. \u201cI just think, listen, celebrate whatever you want in private, but the civic culture of a city has to be British,\u201d she says. Cunningham does not pray or fast over Ramadan but does celebrate Eid at home with family. \u201cI think that it\u2019s not a Muslim city. And I think that I would like to see Judeo-Christian culture and British culture celebrated more in London.\u201d How? \u201cI didn\u2019t see any Easter celebrations in central London, you know. I\u2019d like to see, like, a\u2026 city wide Egg Hunt!\u201d her eyes light up. \u201cLove that, my kids would love that, you know, where all of London, we all get in teams, and we do an egg hunt.\u201d She also wants the Union flag (\u201ca beautiful sight\u201d) to be \u201ceverywhere\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another b\u00eate noir is the multicultural celebrations for various religious holidays, including Eid in Trafalgar Square. \u201cI just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,141711,388,140876,50,633,39237,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-laila-cunningham","tag-london","tag-mayor-of-london","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-reform","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}