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Minister says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – UK politics live
UK NewsPolitics•November 1, 2026 at 10:06 AMNational

Minister says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – UK politics live

By Frances Mao•The Guardian - UK News

Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’Badenoch also rejects the idea of rejoining the EU as a potential solution for the UK economy, no matter how popular it’s currently tracking in the polls “I have been very clear, under my leadership, the Conservative Party is not joining the EU,” she says.“I can’t even believe that we are reopening this debate. This is not something that is needed in order to cut welfare, in order to spend money on defence.I’m not interested in magical thinking, i do not want to indulge in Andy Burnham’s fantasies about redoing the referendum, because he doesn’t have a plan for what to do today. He keeps talking about things what will happen after the next election. Where is this plan for now? We had a budget that did not do very much last week. Continue reading...

Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’

Badenoch also rejects the idea of rejoining the EUas a potential solution for the UK economy, no matter how popular it’s currently tracking in the polls

“I have been very clear, under my leadership, the Conservative Party is not joining the EU,” she says.

“I can’t even believe that we are reopening this debate. This is not something that is needed in order to cut welfare, in order to spend money on defence.

I’m not interested in magical thinking, i do not want to indulge in Andy Burnham’s fantasies about redoing the referendum, because he doesn’t have a plan for what to do today. He keeps talking about things what will happen after the next election. Where is this plan for now? We had a budget that did not do very much last week.

Continue reading...