Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger in reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax

The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has halted plans for a multi-million pound payout to the British Conservative MP Richard Drax for the purchase of 53 acres of the Drax Hall plantation, which he owns.

As revealed in the Observer last Sunday the payout plan had angered those involved in the Caribbean reparations movement who said Drax, the MP for South Dorset, should hand over all or part of the 617-acre plantation to the people of Barbados.

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