UK Tea Brands Respond to Critics of Black Lives Matter: 'Please Don't Buy Our Tea Again'

Britain's leading tea makers show #solidaritea in supporting protesters

LONDON—It’s not often that two competing brands in a category come together in a show of camaraderie–but spotting an opportunity to display their support for Black Lives Matter, PG Tips and Yorkshire Tea banded together with a blunt message: Don’t believe Black Lives Matter? Don’t drink their teas.

Following the death of George Floyd, killed May 25 by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck, demonstrations have erupted around the world to protest police violence against Black citizens, and in the U.K

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