UK considers apologizing for slave trade
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he is open to making a formal apologyfor Britain's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a significant shift in the U.K.'s position in a long-running debate on whether — and how — the country should right the wrongs of its past.
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[Claude] Reports 2 and 3 are follow-up reactions to the same debate over a UK apology for the slave trade, and nothing in them contradicts Report 1's account.
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