Create UK public holiday to remember horrors of slave trade, says race expert

‘Slavery is certainly one of the worst atrocities in human history, but because it’s Black people, we don’t want to remember it,’ said Andrews. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

One of the UK’s leading experts on race has described the government as “the most racist” in his lifetime, and called for a public holiday to remember the horrors of the slave trade.

Speaking on Slavery Remembrance Day, Prof Kehinde Andrews said one day was “not even close to enough” to acknowledge the UK’s links to the historical transatlantic slave trade.