Licence to Offend exhibition cancelled in case it causes offence
An exhibition of work by political cartoonists including The Times's Morten Morland has been cancelled because of fears it could cause offence.
Hours before a private viewing on Wednesday, organisers of Licence to Offend told guests not to go after a last-minute decision by the venue, the TownSq co-working space in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London.
The decision to pull the exhibition was criticised as 'idiotic' by Morland, who started working for The Times in 2002.
His work had been hung in the venue on Saturday alongside previously published cartoons from Mac and Pugh of the Mail titles, Patrick Blower of The Daily Telegraph and Martin Rowson of The Guardian.
The exhibition, featuring satirical images of Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer and the
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