What can Britain learn from backlash to Dutch slavery apology?
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In the Netherlands many felt the move, while welcome, was mishandled and exclusionary, mirroring past inequalityAndy Burnham’s pledge to seek a “structured dialogue” with former colonies to help shape Britain’s first formal state apology for slavery marks the UK’s first tentative step down a path the Netherlands set out on five years ago.The prime minister’s attempts to initiate a historic shift alongside the royal family – whose customary expressions of “profound personal sorrow”, falling short
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