{"id":36105,"date":"2023-04-26T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/04\/26\/sunak-rebuffs-labour-mps-call-for-slave-trade-apology\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:58:05","slug":"sunak-rebuffs-labour-mps-call-for-slave-trade-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=36105","title":{"rendered":"Sunak rebuffs Labour MP&#8217;s call for slave trade apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The prime minister has rejected a call to apologise for the UK\u2019s role in the slave trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy asked if Rishi Sunak would make a \u201cfull and meaningful apology for our country\u2019s role in slavery and colonialism, and commit to reparatory justice\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Sunak said \u201cno\u201d &#8211; \u201ctrying to unpick out history&#8221; was &#8220;not the right way forward\u201d. He said the focus should be on \u201cmaking sure we have a society that is inclusive and tolerate of people from all backgrounds\u201d, which the government was committed to doing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65401737?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The prime minister has rejected a call to apologise for the UK\u2019s role in the slave trade. Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy asked if Rishi Sunak would make a \u201cfull &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}