A historian has accused Labour of contributing to Scotland’s 'amnesia around slavery', saying the party should not try to 'politicise' the country’s reckoning with its imperial history
. Under Labour’s Cammy Day, the city council last year accepted recommendations put forward by Geoff Palmer, which included an official apology.
“In other words, Labour activists shouldn’t be attempting to politicise issues around Scotland’s imperial reckoning with Empire. Mullen also criticised Glasgow Labour MSP Paul Sweeney, an architecture and history buff, who recently proposed rebuilding the Tower of Empire from the 1938 Empire Exhibition, during an interview with The Herald.
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