'Keir Starmer, please don't apologise to me'

Keir Starmer has apologised to me.

On 2 July, he stood up in Parliament and apologised to mothers and adoptees for forced adoptions between 1949–1976, which he described as a stain on our history.

He was referring to the practice of mothers – young, vulnerable and without support – who were "coerced, bullied or misled into feeling that they had no choice but to have their children taken away from them".