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Sir Keir Starmer meets victims of forced adoption at Downing Street as they are set to receive a formal apology after years of campaigning. An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from their mothers between 1949 and 1976, because they were unmarried.
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00:00I just wanted to take the opportunity to see you personally, face to face, to make that apology as well
00:07and to thank you for your incredible courage, not only in relation to what happened, but to campaign and campaign
00:16and campaign
00:17to get to today, which should have happened before, frankly.
00:22I also wanted to say, I'm a dad, I've got two kids, and when I was reading the testimonies, I
00:29couldn't help but think of the meaning of my own family
00:35and therefore through that to just get a real sense of myself of just how hard it wants to be.
00:43So I make my statement in the House of Commons as the Prime Minister in that formal capacity, but I
00:48apologise to you as the Prime Minister.
00:51But I talked to you as a dad, I might put it right, and that would not have happened without
00:56your campaign.
00:57So thank you very much.
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