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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament. Picture date: Wednesday April 26, 2023.
RISHI SUNAK refused to apologise for Britain’s role in historical slavery today and rejected a call to commit to reparations when asked in the Commons.
The Prime Minister was asked by Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy to offer a “full and meaningful apology for our country’s role in slavery and colonialism.”
She said: “Prime ministers and heads of state have only ever expressed sorrow or deep regret.
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
SUE TURNER is appalled by the story of the only original colonising family to still own a plantation in the West Indies