<p>Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’</p><p>Good morning and welcome to our Sunday UK politics blog.</p><p>Budget week conversation has moved on a bit; Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is doing the rounds of the politics shows this morning and she has an <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/31/andy-burnham-just-isnt-serious/">op-ed in the Telegraph</a> railing against the delayed defence spending commitment, claiming instead that the Conservatives could find that spend while cuting the deficit and lowering taxes.</p><p>I do not think that British people today can be held liable for historical wrongs, however heinous, that happened in a different age under different laws and in which they played no personal part.</p><p>Let me be very clear that will not involve financial reparations, because the British people today shouldn’t be held liable for historic wrongs, wrongs that they had no part in.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/nov/01/andy-burnham-uk-historic-slave-trade-financial-reparations-badenoch-budget-defence-latest-politics-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>