UK Covid memorial wall should be made permanent, MPs say

Peers and mayors also among voices calling for wall of hearts to become national landmark

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It started as an almost guerrilla act of memorialisation. In March, grieving relatives began inscribing red hearts beside a Thameside walkway - one for every person in the UK who died from coronavirus. Now stretching 500 metres, the Covid memorial wall should be made a permanent national landmark, say more than 200 MPs, peers and mayors.

Boris Johnson is facing calls to make this wall of hearts a, if not the, permanent memorial to the victims of the pandemic" from a cross-party alliance including the mayors of London and Greater Manchester, Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham.