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Minister says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – UK politics live

Global Published 1 November 2026, 14:18 · archived 1 Nov 2026

Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’Good morning and welcome to our Sunday UK politics blog.Budget week conversation has moved on a bit; Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is doing the rounds of the politics shows this morning and she has an op-ed in the Telegraph railing against the delayed defence spending commitment, claiming instead that the Conservatives could find that spend while cuting the deficit and lowering taxes.I do not think that British people today can be held liable for historical wrongs, however h...

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