Britain’s former Home Secretary wants the descendants of the enslaved to compensate the empire that grew rich off their ancestors’ stolen labour. History — and the Treasury’s own books — tells a very different story.

MONTEGO BAY. Jamaica, July 6, 2026 - By Calvin G. Brown | WiredJa Opinion | There is audacity, and then there is Suella Braverman. The former British Home Secretary, now a Reform UK MP, took to X on July 3 to declare that “the British Empire did so much good for the world” — and that if anyone should be writing cheques, it is Britain’s former colonies, who ought to repay London for “the considerable investment, effort and contribution” the empire supposedly made in building them.