Nigel Farage warned Sir Keir Starmer against showing any “weakness” on calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations.

The Reform leader warned that if the Prime Minister gives an “inch” on the issue then it “will never go away”.

The Clacton MP’s intervention comes as Sir Keir is facing mounting pressure from Commonwealth leaders.

Mr Farage told GB News: “No, no, no, never. I mean, where do you stop with this?

“Do you go for reparations against the African black slave traders who sold the slaves to us in the first place?

“Are we owed reparations from the Portuguese and Spanish who carried on slaving and we at a massive cost stopped them doing it.

“If you give an inch on this, if Starmer shows any weakness on this, even that we might consider it, this will never go away.”

Mr Farage claimed China was attempting to use the issue to sow disunity among Commonwealth countries.

He said: “I detect something going on here. The Chinese Communist Party have been doing their very best to chip away at the Commonwealth for quite some time, Barbados, Solomon Islands, etc.

“I think some of these excessive demands, I think China’s behind it. We must stand firm.”

Mr Farage added: “We cannot concede anything. The past is the past is the past. We are not guilty for it, we are not responsible for it and there are many other countries in the world that have done far worse than we’ve done in a whole variety of areas.

“This is like paying the Danegeld. You pay the invader to go away, the next year they come back for more.”

Sir Keir faced fresh demands as he touched down in Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm).

As he travelled to the summit, the PM insisted calls for reparations for slavery were not on his agenda.

He said: “On the question of which way we’re facing, I think we should be facing forward.

“I’ve talked to a lot of our Commonwealth colleagues in the Commonwealth family and they’re facing real challenges on things like climate in the here and now.”