Hong Kong Handover from Britain to China
Everyone remembers the spontaneous emotion displayed by the last governor of Hong Kong -Chris Patten. He was upset to leave the place he loved and it showed. He later left the Foreign Office. After 99 years of British rule, Hong Kong was handed back to its rightful owners, the Chinese. A tactical stronghold and last vestige of the British Empire, Hong Kong was a symbol of the new ways of New Labour – especially since the Royal Yacht, Britannia, would also be decommissioned that year and the money spent on the Millenium Dome – despite the fact that Margaret Thatcher had handled the handover negotiations. The last voyage of Britannia and a crumbling of the legacy of Empire and class control.
He reminisced with David Frost ten years on with some interesting things to say about the legacy of Tony Blair and new fears over the European Union:
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