British high commissioner to Australia to declare UK must project multicultural image on world stage

Vicki Treadell will set out a case that the UK has made progress to shake off its colonial history in speech to Press Club in Canberra

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The British high commissioner to Australia, Vicki Treadell, will declare that the UK must do more to project a modern, multicultural image on the world stage.

Treadell will talk about the UK’s “journey beyond colonialism” on Wednesday, saying she is proud that in modern Britain “the daughter of immigrants can start at the lowest level of the civil service and become the British high commissioner to Australia”.

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