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

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