Letters: A tax on Drax would be a true Tory cause | Slavery
Letters: A tax on Drax would be a true Tory cause The Conservative MP and landowner could learn to stand on his own two feet, rather than a family fortune built on slavery Richard Drax. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images Richard Drax. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images Sun 20 Dec 2020 01.00 EST Richard Drax’s assertion that “no one can be held responsible today for what happened many hundreds of years ago” might sound a little less disingenuous if he wasn’t personally profiting to such a vast extent from the appalling actions of his own ancestors (“Wealthy MP urged to ...
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