UK PM ‘open’ to slavery apology but not reparations
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October 31, 2026
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Saturday he was “open” to the UK issuing a formal apology for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, but ruled out financial reparations.
Writing in The Guardian days before attending a Commonwealth leaders summit in the Caribbean, and as King Charles III tours the region, the British premier argued that “we need to face up to the past”.
With London under pressure to formally apologise for its pivotal part in the trade and compensate Caribbean nations, he pledged to have “difficult conversations to safeguard the Commonwealth for the future”.
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