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Harry Taylor

Labour MP calls for ministers to apologise over historic forced adoption scandal

Commons leader Sir Alan Campbell said unmarried mothers being forced to give up babies between 1949 and 1976 was ‘abhorrent’ (PA/Yui Mok) - (PA Archive)

The UK Government should apologise for the forced adoption scandal, a Labour MP has said, as he called for all documentation on historic adoptions to be kept.

Adam Jogee (Newcastle-under-Lyme) said a minister should issue an apology on behalf of the Westminster Government to the unmarried mothers who gave up around 185,000 children over a 25-year period.

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