Tory leadership candidate wades into reparations debate, arguing empire brought democratic institutions
The MP and former minister said countries that were part of the empire “owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them” in the form of legal and democratic institutions.Commonwealth leaders agreed at the weekend that the “time has come” for a conversation about reparations for the slave trade, and politicians and campaigners in Britain hosted a
The MP, who is regarded as trailing his rival Kemi Badenoch in a run-off for the votes of Conservative members before the announcement of a final result on Saturday, claimed that the debate about reparations had “seeped into our national debate through universities overrun by leftists peddling pseudo-Marxist gibberish to impressionable undergraduates”.
He wrote: “I’m not ashamed of our history. It may not feel like it, but many of our former colonies – amid the complex realities of empire – owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them.”
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