Ralph Gonsalves offers to meet Kemi Badenoch regarding reparations

Former Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, has offered to travel to London to meet with British Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch. The offer follows recent comments made by Badenoch opposing a British apology for the transatlantic slave trade.

Badenoch previously described a formal apology as a “navel-gazing distraction” and suggested that such a gesture could be used as a “lever to wedge open the door to ask for cash.” She argued that previous statements by former Prime Minister Tony Blair rendered a new apology unnecessary.

Gonsalves, currently the Leader of the Opposition in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and a senior advisor for The Repair Campaign, stated that Badenoch’s comments are unhelpful and incorrect. He expressed a willingness to meet in person to explain the objectives of the reparations movement.