A pro-life charity has threatened legal action against Lambeth Council after its stall was ejected from the Lambeth Country Fair.

The anti-abortion organisation has said the move infringed its human rights, and says it plans to sue the council for libel.

The organisation also wants a public correction and apology from the council.

In a press release it said: “On the second day of the Lambeth Country Show, without any forewarning or discussion, Life’s stall was dismantled by the show organisers and our staff and volunteers instructed to leave. This was despite our application having been approved since April, three months after its submission.”

The organisation also accuses the council of making “false and misleading statements about Life’s presence at the show.”

On July 22, the second day of the show, Cllr Ed Davie replied to a tweet asking why the group was removed from the show.

His tweet read: “It’s a community festival – that includes women who have had to make really hard family planning decisions who don’t want plastic foetuses in their faces.”

The organisation said it had instructed solicitors to begin legal action against Lambeth Council “for defamation, breach of contract and interference with our right to freedom of expression following our expulsion from the Lambeth Country Show.

“Life is seeking a public correction and apology from Lambeth Council, an undertaking that our right to freedom of expression will not be unlawfully interfered with again and that the council will properly engage with us in the future, and compensation for the harm to our charity,” the press release continued.

Life’s director of education Anne Scanlan said: “The beginning of human life in the womb is normal and worthy of celebration. This is what Life sought to do when it was stopped and ejected from the show, apparently because it showed educational models of the unborn baby (although different reasons have been provided at different times).

“When our right to celebrate the very start of human life is denied we have no choice but to stand up to those who wish to trample on freedom of expression.”

Lambeth Council did not wish to comment.