A pro-life charity is has condemned a London council over their “authoritarian and discriminatory” decision to remove their stall from a country show at the weekend.

Life says it has documentary evidence that Lambeth Borough Council had granted it permission to attend the Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park, and accepted payment for their stall.

However, when they arrived on the second day of the show they discovered their stall had been taken down before officials told their volunteers to leave. The show’s organisers said the council had decided to remove them because Life was “against the values of Lambeth Council” and was “not in line with the causes the council has been funding and supporting”.