Starmer is in the Commons to formally apologise for the forced adoption scandal, in which an estimated 185,000 unmarried mothers who, between the 1950s and 1970s, were pressured or coerced into surrendering their babies. A 2022 parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry called for an apology. Now Starmer – in legacy mode – is doing so…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”