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• Indy3h ago

  Burnham pledges £40m in aid for Caribbean amid calls for reparations over UK’s role in the slave trade

  The prime minister said the money will go towards green energy schemes in the Caribbean

• Indy8h ago

  Equalities watchdog writes to Reform after complaints ‘alleging unlawful activity’ after ITV probe

  The undercover probe by ITV News, broadcast in September, revealed councillors and candidates within Reform using racist language

• Indy9h ago

  Home secretary accused of persisting with ‘unfair’ immigration crackdown despite care worker exemption

  Under Shabana Mahmood’s watered-down plans those who arrive on a small boat will have to wait up to 30 years

• Indy9h ago

  Tory grandee blasts slave reparations after Burnham denies payout plans

  Former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind has told The Independent that paying compensation for events 300 years ago is ‘illogical and should be rejected’ as leftwing Labour MPs push the prime minister to agree to pay

• Indy9h ago

  Mahmood’s ‘Reform-lite’ migrant crackdown was nonsense, top economist claims

  The home secretary has watered down her initial immigration crackdown – but a leading economist claims the plan has backfired