Starmer to issue formal apology to mothers and children harmed by historic forced adoption policies – UK politics live

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will deliver a formal state apology to survivors of forced adoption policies. Between nineteen forty-nine and nineteen seventy-six, approximately one hundred eighty-five thousand babies were taken from unmarried mothers and placed for adoption in England and Wales. These separations were driven by shame surrounding unmarried pregnancy, with most placements coordinated through religious organizations and local councils. Survivors have campaigned for decades for official acknowledgment of this institutional harm. According to The Guardian, Starmer's parliamentary apology represents a significant moment of accountability for one of Britain's historical failures.

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