Ms Kerry MCCARTHY

Speeches since 2019

30/01/2020 | 17:08:31 Thank you Sir Roger GALE. I want to start by paying tribute to Mr Vernon COAKER. He did tremendous work in the UK Parliament on trafficking and also on this report, and it's a great shame that because of our recent election he cannot be here today to present it. I represent Bristol, a port city whose fortunes were built on the triangular slave trade. Bristol merchants financed over two thousand journeys by ship carrying more than half a million enslaved human beings many of whom died on the...