Commonwealth
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Over in Samoa at the meeting of Commonwealth leaders, it looks like Sir Keir Starmer is encountering stormy waters. One topic he wanted to keep off the communique that will be published at the end of the CHOGM summit was the concept of reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Sky News political editor Beth Rigby…
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A hot-button issue in many Commonwealth countries is the issue of reparations, and government’s in the Caribbean have estimated the total would reach $24 trillion – 10 times the UK’s GDP. Baroness Scotland, secretary-general of the Commonwealth, says the organisation “will always play a role in that conversation”. She notes that the King raised the…
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