Bell Ribeiro-Addy: After coronavirus, the UK’s former colonies won’t need us – we’ll desperately need them

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy: After coronavirus, the UK’s former colonies won’t need us – we’ll desperately need them
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The pandemic has shown that we have less and less to offer. When we emerge from this crisis, we’ll need to approach the commonwealth from a place of equality, respect and understanding, writes Bell Ribeiro-Addy

During a recent Urgent Question about Jamaica deportation flights, a Conservative MP remarked that “British citizenship was a privilege, not a right”. Yet as I write, hundreds of thousands of British nationals are stranded abroad. British consulates have closed their doors and unplugged the phones. Brits look on as other countries pull out all the stops to get their citizens safely home.

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