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

Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’ Over on Sky earlier, the Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey has also backed the government’s move towards an apology saying “we should have that debate”.

“If you’ve done something wrong, I have no problem for apologising. I think that’s what normal people expect to do,” he tells Sky host…