‘You’re looking at it!’: Wong’s UK counterpart hits back at colonialism comments
James Cleverly says Australians need only look at his role as Britain’s first black foreign secretary and his boss, Rishi Sunak’s elevation to prime minister, to know that the UK is confronting its colonial past.
“I mean the bottom line is we have a prime minister of Asian heritage, you have a home secretary of Asian heritage, you have a foreign secretary of African heritage.“The amazing work that we have been doing and are destined to do now with Australia is a real indicator that yes of course, history matters, what matters more is the stuff we can do in the future,” he said.
Cleverly said the UK’s “fantastic” working relationships with countries that were former colonies had undergone a remarkable evaluation and were now, by mutual consent, part of the close-knit friendship club of the Commonwealth.
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