King Charles backs Starmer in  ruling out paying billions in slavery reparations

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King Charles backed Sir Keir Starmer in effectively ruling out reparations over slavery today, saying: ‘None of us can change the past. But we can commit, with all our hearts to learning its lessons and to finding creative ways to right inequalities that endure.’
The monarch – and new head of the Commonwealth – told its meeting of leaders in Samoa that it was important to understand and acknowledge ‘the most painful aspects of our past’

But he also made clear that it was crucial to look to the future and right ongoing inequalities through education, skills training, employment, health and addressing climate change.

His words appear to be an endorsement of the British Prime Minister’s rejection of demands by some Commonwealth leaders, particularly from the Caribbean, to discuss plans to examine reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade, which could leave the UK owing billions of pounds.
He has said he wants to focus on current issues, such as the environment, instead.
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