Starmer says forced adoptions a 'stain on our history', as he gives formal apology

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a formal apology for forced adoptions in Britain — a practice that saw thousands of babies separated from their mothers between nineteen forty-nine and nineteen seventy-six. 'A stain on our history,' Starmer called it, according to BBC News. The apology acknowledges the systematic harm inflicted on those families.

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