Grenada has called on wealthy British families with historic links to slavery to follow the example of Laura Trevelyan, the former BBC journalist, and set up charities to pay reparations.

The campaigners are former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and her cousin John Dower, who recently apologised to the Caribbean island of Grenada for their family's historic role in the slave trade.

“I thought, if the legacy of slavery in America is police brutality towards Black men, what does it mean in Grenada? What’s the legacy there? What’s the debate? What role did my ancestors ...