'I am truly sorry': Starmer apologises for state’s role in forced adoptions – video

The prime minister apologised in the Commons on Tuesday to women forced to give up their babies and to those separated from their mothers at birth by a system of forced adoptions that targeted unmarried women between 1949 and 1976. Starmer said the state bore responsibility for 'funding and legitimising' the practice

‘The shame is ours’: Keir Starmer issues formal state apology over forced adoptions