Marvin Jonathan Rees, Baron Rees of Easton is a British Labour Party politician who served as the second and final Mayor of Bristol from 2016 to 2024. He was created a life peer in February 2025.
Rees in 2023
Rees speaking at the 2016 Labour Party conference
The empty pedestal of the statue of Edward Colston, showing placards and graffiti left after the statue's removal
Rees in 2022
Statue of Edward Colston
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The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston. It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly situa
Marvin Rees, Baron Rees of Easton
…arena in the north of the city, built with private investment at no public cost. In March 2019, Rees vetoed the installation of a second plaque to the statue of the Bristol-born merchant Edward Colston as he rejected the proposed wording as failing to adequately describe Colston's role in the Bristol slave…
The statue in 2019
Detail of one of the dolphins
Irish sculptor John Cassidy
Art installation, showing figures representing slaves on a ship, during Anti-Slavery Day 2018