It was in 2024 that officer Paul Birch decided he could no longer remain in the police. The veteran counter-terrorism expert, with 24 years’ experience and a raft of commendations in his pocket, was sitting in a tired suburban training centre, attending a ‘mandatory leadership course’ on ‘anti-racism’, hosted by the Metropolitan Police.
‘We were all bored and just wanted to get out of there,’ he tells The Mail on Sunday – but then his ears pricked up.
In a section about British history, instructors told the officers that Caribbean migrants had been forcibly rounded up and marched aboard the now-famous ship
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