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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent

Clive Lewis calls for UK to negotiate Caribbean slavery reparations

Clive Lewis
Clive Lewis said the Trevelyan family had ‘opened the door of this debate just a little wider’. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock

The Labour MP Clive Lewis has called on Rishi Sunak to enter negotiations with Caribbean leaders on paying reparations for Britain’s role in slavery, following the historic announcements by the Trevelyan family.

Speaking at a parliamentary debate on promoting financial security in the Caribbean, Lewis said the issue of reparations could not be dismissed as an obsession among a small group of “so-called woke extremists”.

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