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Starmer says he wants to ‘look forward’ and not talk about slavery reparations

Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer is under pressure to discuss reparatory justice with Commonwealth countries in Samoa this week. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Keir Starmer has insisted he wants to “look forward” rather than have “very long endless discussions about reparations on the past” in his first comments on the issue before the Commonwealth summit.

The prime minister is under pressure to discuss reparatory justice with Commonwealth countries, most of which are former UK colonies, in Samoa this week.

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