Extension of King Charles free portraits scheme upsets unions and mosques

Academics' union calls offer a descent into parody' while mosques complain about C of E special treatment

It is meant to remind Britons of the example set by our ultimate public servant", but a 4.4m government scheme to send out free portraits of Charles III for display in public buildings is not quite going to plan.

After first limiting the availability of the oak-framed pictures of the king in his admiral's uniform to courts, schools and police and fire services, the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, said this week that any jobcentre, university, Church of England church or hospital could also have one.