James Cleverly, Britain’s first black foreign secretary, said you only needed to look at the holders of the UK’s top four jobs to see the country’s progress from its imperial past.
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. 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., where Wong visited on Monday with Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles.
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