Miliband insists a slavery apology will not cost taxpayers 'a penny more' after Burnham refuses to rule out extra cash
King Charles III, whose remarks drew no commitment to reparations, with Buckingham Palace insisting he would not be responsible for delivering any apology.Andy Burnham fell while playing cricket at the Commonwealth summit in Antigua, where he has ruled out reparations but launched structured talks on a formal slavery apology.King Charles III at Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua and Barbuda, where he learned about efforts to protect the islands' natural and built heritage, as Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined efforts to build towards a formal slavery apology.Andy Burnham, Prime Minister, met King Charles at the Commonwealth Business Forum at the Sticky Wicket, as former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby branded the £40m taxpayer-funded allocation for Caribbean green energy and infrastructure a 'moral evil'.On board HMS Wellington, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said Britain should "stop apologising" for its role in the slave trade, as Burnham warned a formal UK apology is now expected next year when Britain holds the G20 presidency.Queen Camilla met women advocating for others across the Commonwealth, including survivors of abuse, as Andy Burnham separately opened formal slavery apology talks at the Antigua summit.
Ed Miliband attacked Tony Blair's 2006 response to slavery as a "sorry, not sorry" situation, insisting the former PM's approach had poisoned Commonwealth relations for two decades. The Foreign Secretary said on the BBC's Newscast podcast that a formal apology is expected before the G20 in Manchester next November, but flatly ruled out any reparations payments.
Burnham, speaking in Antigua, refused to guarantee no extra penny would go to Commonwealth nations, citing existing development and green finance commitments.
King Charles told CHOGM leaders Britain's role in the slave trade 'fills my heart with horror', but stopped short of a formal apology he is constitutionally barred from making unilaterally.
Reform's Suella Braverman declared 'Britons owe zero', saying former colonies 'flourished' because of the Empire and accusing Burnham of placing the King in an 'invidious position'.
