During the Prime Minister's Questions on the 26th April 2023, Ms Ribeiro-Addy asked for the UK government to apologise for the 'country's role in slavery and colonialism.'
Mr Sunak refused. Instead, he said we should understand 'our history and all its parts, not [run] away from it... [T]rying to unpick our history is not the right way forward.'
But this explanation doesn't match the refusal. To fully understand our history, we have to acknowledge what happened rather than run away from that truth.
An apology for slavery acknowledges it happened. An apology for slavery shows we understand our history and that we run towards the truth.
Refusing to apologise is simply ignoring slavery happened. That is, it's trying to unpick it from our history.
So Sunak's explanation for refuting the apology is actually the very reason to give the apology.
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