Category: Reparations and reparative justice

‘Profound anger’ among black voters over Kemi Badenoch’s slavery remarks

Operation Black Vote chair says Tory leader’s claim that Britain should not apologise has caused ‘hurt and disbelief’The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, has caused “profound anger, hurt and disbelief” among many black voters...

Read More

Will the UK finally pay slavery reparations? – The Latest

Andy Burnham has asked countries affected by Britain’s role in slavery to help shape a formal apology through a ‘structured dialogue’. During the prime minister’s visit to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua...

Read More

Louise Haigh and deputy Conservative leader Alex Burghart clash over welfare spending at PMQS – UK politics live

The first secretary of state says the government will bring welfare spending downLouise Haigh starts by saying she is standing in for Andy Burnham.She says this weekend the whole country will fall silent to mark Remembrance...

Read More

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood to set out changes to settlement rules – UK politics live

Mahmood will outline the final version of her plans to make foreign workers wait longer before they can apply for indefinite leave to remainDowning Street has declined to say how much it cost for the plane carrying Andy Burnham...

Read More

Tories accuse Shabana Mahmood of ‘U-turn’ on indefinite leave to remain policy – UK politics live

Chris Philp says the home secretary is giving in to ‘open-borders Labour left’ ahead of an announcement this afternoonDowning Street has declined to say how much it cost for the plane carrying Andy Burnham and UK delegates to a...

Read More

UK was ‘vehement’ slavery reparations should not be on Commonwealth summit agenda

British prime minister has now agreed to structured dialogue on reparatory justice but issue remains off formal Chogm agendaBritish officials initially insisted that discussions of reparations for slavery should not be on the...

Read More

Andy Burnham open to calls for formal apology for Britain’s role in slave trade

Exclusive: UK PM to launch drive to restructure debt of poorest Commonwealth countries but rejects demands for reparations• British people can’t be made to pay for the wrongs of slavery – but we must confront our complicated...

Read More

How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners

Tory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave tradeThere is a British culture of celebrating the abolition of slavery without acknowledging that the country...

Read More

We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found

Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversationGuardian owner heralds next phase in Legacies of Enslavement restorative justice planThere’s an image, a...

Read More
Loading