Reform UK would stop visas for people from countries seeking slavery reparations

Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesperson, said the UK was ‘not an ATM for ethnic grievances of the past’. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

Reform UK would stop issuing visas to people from any country that continues to demand compensation from the UK for its role in the transatlantic trade in enslaved people, the party has said.

Zia Yusuf, the party’s home affairs spokesperson, told the Daily Telegraph that the call for reparations was “insulting”.