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Politics tamfitronics EditorialNewsday10 Hrs AgoBritish Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. -KEIR STARMER’S decision to rule out reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade was an incredibly bad call.The British PM’s declaration that the issue was a non-starter for his country ahead of this week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) may have been good politics at home, but it is bad politics abroad. He has weakened his standing.Sir Keir has shown what can only be described as ineptitude by paying short shrift to the issue, ruling it out before even a single speech was delivered and after several states, including the Caricom bloc and Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, signalled a desire to have it ventilated.On October 14, UK media reported a Downing Street spokesperson, in remarks that have not been rolled back or...