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Prime Minister says UK could apologise over slave trade

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Should Britain apologise for its role in the industrial trafficking of millions of enslaved African people across the Atlantic?

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Both outlets frame the story around the UK government’s possible apology for its historic role in the slave trade. Channel 4 News leads with the prime minister saying the UK could apologise and foregrounds the question of whether Britain should apologise, while The Guardian US packages the item as a live politics blog and, in its extract, adds the angle of Andy Burnham saying Britain needed to acknowledge its complicated history.

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