A host of high profile celebrities and cultural figures today announced a campaign against David Cameron's proposed £50 million programme of events to mark the centenary of the First World War.
Opponents including Michael Morpurgo, Jude Law, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Sir Patrick Stewart and Anthony Gormley are backing a campaign against the plans by the Stop The War Coalition.
The campaign group, which will make a full statement on the issue tomorrow morning, said the anniversary of the start of the war should be an opportunity to "focus on remembrance of the enormous number of lives lost and a commitment to a future of peace and international cooperation".
The plans include sending 'student ambassadors' from every state secondary school to First World War battlefields, commemorative football matches and a national commemoration and memorial service matched by community events across the country.
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