Sir Keir Starmer has dismissed calls for reparations for historic slavery ahead of the annual Commonwealth summit, saying he would rather focus on contemporary challenges to member nations such as climate change.
The prime minister, speaking to journalists on the flight to Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa on Wednesday, said he did not want to endure “very very long endless discussions about reparations on the past” and instead wished to look to the future.
Joshua Setipa, former trade minister for Lesotho and one of the leading contenders to be the new Commonwealth secretary-general, told the Financial Times this week that “the timing is right to begin a discussion on reparatory justice”.
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