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U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy has spoken of how his
heard "twisted lies of
as they were…turned into
". His ancestors were enslaved. In 2018, he tweeted: "As Caribbean people, we are not going to forget our
. We don't just want to hear an
. We want reparations." Conversely, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a possible
chairman of the U.K. Conservative Party, suggested Commonwealth countries should pay the U.K. for its
in abolishing slavery. He tweeted: "They ought to pay us for ending slavery. It is not
any other country had done, and we were motivated by Christian
." The U.K. recently stated there would be no
redress.
