"The British public are generally proud of their country’s role in subjecting the world to colonialism and the British Empire, according to a new poll." "Common criticisms of the empire include its policies causing millions of famine deaths in British India, its running of brutal detention camps in occupied territories, and massacres of civilians by imperial troops." "The British Empire was also a dominant slave-trading power until the practice was outlawed in 1807," "David Cameron has previously said the Empire should be “celebrated”."