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Commonwealth Leaders To Push For Slavery Reparation Conversation: BBC

PM Keir Starmer says UK government policy is not to apologise for slavery or offer reparations (Credit: AFP)

Commonwealth heads of government are to push for a "conversation" on reparations for the transatlantic slave trade when they meet for the association's first summit in two years, the BBC reported on Thursday.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the focus of the summit should be on "real challenges on things like climate in the here and now... rather than what will end up being very, very long, endless discussions about reparations on the past".

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