EXCLUSIVE: After years of campaigning, heartbreak and shame, mum Jill Killingston describes the moment she heard Keir Starmer apologise to thousands of women like her who were forced to give up their babies for adoption

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

The Prime Minister’s formal statement will follow a meeting with campaigners at Downing Street