UK within British empire is like last person left at a

Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’

The historian David Olusoga has said the UK is the one country left in the British empire as he likened it to being the last oblivious person at a party.

Asked at Hay festival on Sunday whether the British empire had ended, the broadcaster said: “There’s one country left in the British empire that needs to liberate itself and have its independence day from its own history, and that’s Britain.”