PM's remarks on Holocaust Memorial Day

Marking Holocaust Memorial Day, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said:

“The Holocaust was a collective endeavour by thousands of ordinary people utterly consumed by the hatred of difference. That is the hatred we stand against today and it is a collective endeavour for all of us to defeat it.

“We must start by remembering the six million Jewish victims and by defending the truth against anyone who would deny it.

“But as we remember, we must also act. Because we say “never again” – but where was never again in the genocides of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur – and where is never again as antisemitism kills Jewish people still?

“Today, we have to make those words mean more. We will make Holocaust education a truly national endeavour. We will ensure all schools teach it and seek to give every young person the opportunity to hear a recorded survivor testimony, because by learning from survivors we can develop that empathy for others and that appreciation of our common humanity, which is the ultimate way to defeat the hatred of difference.

“It happened, it can happen again: that is the warning of the Holocaust to us all. And it's why it is a duty for all of us to make “never again” finally mean what it says: never again.”