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‘Elitist’ Foreign Office must be rebranded, senior diplomats and campaigners urge
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Whitehall, London, June 16, 2020

A CALL by senior diplomats for the “elitist” Foreign Office to be ditched and rebranded to face Britain’s colonial legacy head-on was welcomed by anti-racism campaigners today.

Moazzam Malik, former director-general at the Foreign Office and one of the authors of a report, said the current department building “speaks of our past rather than our future.”

Leading figures in diplomacy and international development have called for a renewed vision of British foreign affairs in the report from UCL Policy Lab and Hertford College.

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