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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jill Lawless

UK government to apologize for the state's role in decades of forced adoptions

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The British government will make a formal apology on Thursday for separating tens of thousands of unmarried mothers from their babies, a practice that lasted for decades until the 1970s.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the final weeks of his premiership, will make a statement in the House of Commons acknowledging the state’s role in forced adoptions and apologizing to survivors.

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