Gordon Brown calls for apologies over forced adoptions in England and Wales

Campaigners say time running out to issue formal apology to women who had babies taken away in 1950s, 60s and 70s

Gordon Brown has called on the UK government to issue a formal apology to women whose babies were forcibly adopted in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

The former Labour prime minister said the state should apologise for its role in the “terrible tragedy” of forced adoptions involving about 200,000 women in England and Wales.