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

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The GuardianMinister says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – UK politics live
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Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’ Over on Sky earlier, the Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey has also backed the government’s move towards an apology saying “we…

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