With her comments on slavery, Kemi Badenoch shows a poor grasp of history

‘How encouraging to see that Kemi Badenoch has now emerged as a historian.’ Photograph: Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Your article quotes the business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, claiming that the UK’s wealth “was not due to colonial history or racial privilege” (Kemi Badenoch: ‘UK’s wealth isn’t from white privilege and colonialism’, 18 April)

Ms Badenoch is misinformed, and if she was interested in the local history of the place where she was born, Wimbledon in London, she would know that it was the centre of Britain’s initial involvement in the slave trade, from which that locality and Britain gained huge wealth.