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John Healey says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – as it happened

THE GUARDIAN — WORLD · Frances Mao ·

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Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’ At the end of his interview with Kuennsberg, Healey was also asked to comment on a potential apology for Britain’s near-250 years of perpetrating the slave trade and why the government should or shouldn’t pay reparations to enslaved people and their countries. Sitting in…

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