A Tory MP has hit back at campaigners who want him to pay reparations to Barbados over slave deaths at a Barbados plantation his ancestors ran from 1640 to 1836.
They are demanding South Dorset MP Richard Drax pay money to the 'people of Jamaica and Barbados ' for damages done by slavery at the 621-acre estate worth an estimated £4.7million he inherited.
Slavery at the plantation ended in 1836 and it has been operated as a farm by the family since, passing ownership of the down through the generations.
Mr Drax said: 'I am keenly aware of the slave trade in the West Indies, and the role my very distant ancestor played in it is deeply, deeply regrettable.