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One of the founding members of the campaign to move the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Oxford to a museum says Lord Patten鈥檚 response to the campaign is 鈥渟candalous鈥�.

Lord Patten, the university鈥檚 chancellor, told the Today programme that if Oxford students did not demonstrate a 鈥済enerosity of spirit鈥� towards history and respect for the principle of free speech 鈥渢hey should think about being educated elsewhere鈥�.

But Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, an international relations student at Oxford, said the campaign was 鈥渄oing exactly what Lord Patten says a university is for.鈥�

鈥淭he notion that Cecil Rhodes should be un-reflexively glorified鈥� we think is no longer tolerable,鈥� he told the Today programme.