Time has come for reparations for slavery conversation, Commonwealth heads say – as UK fails to keep it off agenda

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Commonwealth leaders have defied the prime minister to agree the “time has come” to discuss reparations for the slave trade.

An row over the issue erupted earlier this week as Keir Starmer arrived at a major two-day summit in Samoa.

Now the UK has failed to keep language on reparations out of a joint statement signed at the end of the Commonwealth Heads of…

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