Starmer Rules Out Reparations Amid Commonwealth Calls for Slave Trade Debate

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Britain ‘cant’ change its history’ amid calls for reparations over the transatlantic slave trade. His government has ruled out reparations but a Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Samoa has seen some member states urging a ‘meaningful conversation’ about the issue. King Charles opened the summit with an acknowledgement of inequalities that ‘endure’.