Opposition peers in the House of Lords won a vote to give citizenship rights to descendants of Chagos Islanders evicted by the UK in the 1970s.
A parliamentary committee ruled they had not responded properly to anti-racist campaigners.
Here are some of the campaigns to remove or replace effigies of the UK’s controversial historical figures
Teaching a whitewashed history excludes British students from different cultural backgrounds: it ignores the impact of their ancestors.
Leave chiefs' colonial view of rights means less 'control' for the rest of us
European empires did not create the Iraqi civil war or ISIS