The Tory leadership hopeful said Commonwealth nations owe Britain a “debt of gratitude” for the democratic institutions they inherited after gaining independence from the UK. Writing in the Daily Mail, he said: “Many of our former colonies – amid the complex realities of empire – owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them.”
Speaking to The Independent, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Labour MP and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations, described Mr Jenrick’s remarks as deeply offensive.
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