Commonwealth leaders are set to elect a new head of the organisation who favours demanding that Britain be made to pay slavery and climate reparations. The Telegraph has more.
Sir Keir Starmer will have to face down calls for the U.K. to hand billions of pounds to former colonies when he attends the group’s bi-annual summit in Samoa this week.
The club’s 56 member countries will choose its next Secretary General at the gathering as Baroness Scotland, a Labour peer, stands down.
They are set to pick from three candidates, all from African nations, who have all voiced support for the U.K. paying some form of reparations.
Downing Street has ruled out discussing their demands for cash at this week’s summit, insisting that they are “not on the agenda”. …
One of the three will be elected to replace Lady Scotland, a former Attorney General, who has come to the end of her eight-year term in office.
Sir Keir can expect to face a barrage of demands for reparations from Commonwealth leaders whom he meets during the six-day summit.
Island nations including the Bahamas and Barbados are also pressing for multi-billion pound payouts linked to Western countries’ impact on climate change.
Worth reading in full.
Any excuse to demand money, it seems. Completely shameless. If a country is struggling economically, it has nothing to do with something that ceased 200 years ago, even less with some future projected ‘climate catastrophe’. Sounds like they need to stop blaming others for whatever misfortunes they are experiencing and work out some actual solutions.
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