The leaders of the Commonwealth group of nations will meet at a welcome banquet in Samoa in the South Pacific on Thursday, with climate change and reparations for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade both likely to be on the agenda.

Downing Street insist say di mata no dey di agenda of di summit of 56 Commonwealth kontris, wey go begin for di Pacific island kontri of Samoa on Friday.

Keir Starmer has faced renewed calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations which could far exceed £200 billion as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chgom) in Samoa gets underway. A group of 15 Caribbean governments,