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UK’s Starmer apologises for the state’s role in decades of forced adoptions

· By Al Jazeera
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a formal apology over the forced adoption of babies born to unmarried British mothers in the decades after World War II, describing the scheme as a “stain on our history”.

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