Labour MP: May must say sorry to Commonwealth

Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, has called on Theresa May to apologise to the Commonwealth for historical wrongdoing by Britain.

Ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London next week, Ms Thornberry urged the Prime Minister to “say sorry to the other heads of government” for the Tory party’s refusal to impose sanctions on South Africa during Apartheid in the Eighties.

She also called on Mrs May to say sorry to the Chagos Islands and its people, where families were forced to leave in the Sixties and Seventies by Britain so a US airbase could be installed.