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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

James Cleverly rebuffs Australian minister over UK colonialism remarks

James Cleverly and Penny Wong
Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong, with James Cleverly, the UK foreign secretary, in London this week. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

James Cleverly has rejected suggestions Britain needs to do more to confront its colonial past, pointing out that he is “the black foreign secretary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain”.

He was responding to questions after a speech by the Australian foreign minister, Penny Wong, while on a visit to London this week in which she said Britain needed to reflect on its past.

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