British colonists to get passports

London - Britain said it would right an old injustice by granting full citizenship to all 160,000 inhabitants of its remaining…

London - Britain said it would right an old injustice by granting full citizenship to all 160,000 inhabitants of its remaining colonies, but demanded that they did more to fight money-laundering.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr Robin Cook, also said Britain would demand changes in the law of a minority of the so-called Overseas Territories which still used corporal punishment and forbade homosexual acts in private.

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