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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin

Time has come for reparations conversation, Commonwealth heads say – as UK fails to keep it off agenda

Starmer has been told he must come to the table to discuss the ‘ill effects’ of slavery - (PA)

Commonwealth leaders have defied the prime minister to agree the “time has come” to discuss reparations for the slave trade.

A row over the issue erupted earlier this week as Keir Starmer arrived at a major two-day summit in Samoa.

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