'Deep regret' for failure to honour black and Asian troops
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'Deep regret' for failure to honour black and Asian troops
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has apologised and expressed "deep regret" for failures to properly commemorate black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for the British Empire.
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said that "everybody who died fighting for Britain or the Commonwealth in any conflict deserves to be recognised and remembered equally”. The opposition leader’s..
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace expressed “deep regret” that it took so long to rectify the situation on the commemoration of troops.He told MPs: “On behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves..
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“Pervasive racism” underpinned a failure to properly commemorate potentially hundreds of thousands of predominantly black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for the British Empire, an..
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