Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi has been questioned by the education select committee over his department’s work.
He was quizzed over “how” he thought “contentious” topics such as historic slavery in the British Empire “should that be taught in a balanced way”, as he has previously suggested.
Zahawisaid that “We should learn everything about the abhorrent practise of the slave trade as well as learn of everything else that the empire delivered”,he said the civil service that Imperial Britain set up in his country of birth,