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Richard Drax MP (left) and Jacob Rees-Mogg eat an ice cream in Weymouth earlier this year (Getty)
While our country hovers on the edge of a historic break with Europe, my attention was caught by what, at first sight, seemed a rather less significant issue: the Tory MP who has inherited a sugar estate in Barbados and is being asked to pay reparations for his ancestors’ treatment of slaves.
But the issues are far from trivial and also go beyond the demands of the Black Lives Matter campaign that slave owners should be dethroned from the respectability conveyed by statues and street names.