Ann Morgan, Richard Reddie, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Marghuerita Remi-Judah, and Reverend Wale Hudson-Roberts the Approaches to Reparations event in the House of Commons, February 9, 2026 [Pic: Michael Preston]
THE government must compensate black British people for the harms caused by chattel slavery to “reshape the world towards justice,” Parliament has heard.
Quakers led a discussion in the Commons, exploring what reparations might look like in Britain, chaired by Clapham and Brixton Hill Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy.
Community organisers, racial justice advocates and religious leaders joined the event, entitled Approaches to Reparations: Faith-Based, Community and Grassroots Perspectives.
Black Lives Matter UK national organiser Kojo Kyerewaa said: “We need to relate reparations to the daily lives of people, and make the links between that which they already know about what is unjust and reparations as a liberatory pathway.
“That way we can begin to reshape the world towards justice, and we deserve nothing less.”
In 2022, Quakers in Britain agreed to consider making practical reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and economic exploitation.
“We need to name our part in the history,” said Quaker Marghuerita Remi-Judah.
“The Quaker testimony is one of peace … enslavement was violence, antithetical to peace.”
