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Sir Keir Starmer has confronted calls for the UK to pay reparations for its historical part in the slave trade while surrounded by Commonwealth leaders.
Britain’s government and King Charles III are bracing for a heated conversation about reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, as the issue looks set to overshadow a summit of Commonwealth ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says Britain could not afford to pay reparations for its part in the slave trade King Charles acknowledges ‘pains of the past’ as he weighs in on reparations row amid ...
Commonwealth leaders and Labour backbenchers have demanded the Prime Minister open the door to discussions on reparatory justice.
Hermer has also advised Caribbean nations on slavery reparations, and represented Kenyan victims of torture during the Mau Mau emergency. A friend and former colleague of Keir Starmer at Doughty Street Chambers, Hermer was a donor to Starmer's campaign in the 2020 Labour leadership election.
Keir Rodney Starmer was born on 2 September 1962, at Southwark in south east London, [1] [2] [3] and grew up in the town of Oxted, Surrey. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He was the second of the four children of Josephine ( née Baker ), a nurse, and Rodney Starmer, a toolmaker .
The CPS denied that Starmer was behind the decision, saying that it was the responsibility of a Crown Court and was out of Starmer's hands. [48] Later that year, Starmer published a plan for the criminal justice system to better handle cases of female genital mutilation ; at the time, the offence had never been successfully prosecuted. [ 49 ]
Draft communique containing agreement to re-examine slave trade reparations adds to building pressure on PM Commonwealth leaders to defy Keir Starmer over slavery reparations Skip to main content