Keir Starmer has delivered an official apology to Parliament over an appalling post-war scandal that saw tens of thousands of unmarried mums forced to give up their babies for adoption

The British government plans to formally apologize for separating unmarried mothers from their babies, a practice that lasted until the 1970s.

Between 1949 and 1976, an estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers and placed for adoption in England and Wales