David Lammy | |
---|---|
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs | |
Assumed office 29 November 2021 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Lisa Nandy |
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Shadow Lord Chancellor | |
In office 6 April 2020 –29 November 2021 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Richard Burgon |
Succeeded by | Steve Reed |
Shadow Minister for Universities and Science | |
In office 12 May 2010 –8 October 2010 | |
Leader | Harriet Harman (Acting) |
Preceded by | David Willetts |
Succeeded by | Gareth Thomas |
Minister of State for Higher Education and Intellectual Property | |
In office 5 October 2008 –11 May 2010 | |
Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | Bill Rammell |
Succeeded by | David Willetts |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation,Universities and Skills | |
In office 29 June 2007 –5 October 2008 | |
Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Siôn Simon |
Minister of State for Culture | |
In office 10 May 2005 –28 June 2007 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Estelle Morris |
Succeeded by | Margaret Hodge |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs | |
In office 13 June 2003 –10 May 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Bridget Prentice |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health | |
In office 29 May 2002 –13 June 2003 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Yvette Cooper |
Succeeded by | Melanie Johnson |
Member of Parliament for Tottenham | |
Assumed office 22 June 2000 | |
Preceded by | Bernie Grant |
Majority | 30,175 (64.4%) |
Member of the London Assembly as the 10th Additional Member | |
In office 4 May 2000 –4 July 2000 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | Jennette Arnold |
Personal details | |
Born | David Lindon Lammy 19 July 1972 Holloway,London,England |
Citizenship |
|
Political party | Labour |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Education | Downhills Primary School, [2] Tottenham, London The King's School, Peterborough |
Alma mater | SOAS University of London (LLB) Harvard University (LLM) |
Occupation |
|
Signature | |
Website | www |
David Lammy (born 19 July 1972) is an English politician and lawyer serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since the 2000 Tottenham by-election.
Lammy was a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, lastly as Minister of State for Universities in the Brown ministry. He served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice from 2020 to 2021 and has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in Keir Starmer's Shadow Cabinet since November 2021.
David Lammy was born on 19 July 1972 in Whittington Hospital in Archway, London, to Guyanese parents David and Rosalind Lammy. [3] [4] [5] He and his four siblings were raised solely by his mother, after his father left the family when Lammy was 12 years old. Lammy has spoken about the importance of fathers and the need to support them in seeking to be active in the lives of their children. [6] He chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fatherhood, and has written on the issue. [7] [8] [9]
Lammy grew up in Tottenham, and went to Downhills Primary School. [10] At the age of 10, Lammy was awarded an Inner London Education Authority choral scholarship to sing at Peterborough Cathedral and attend The King's School, Peterborough. [11]
He studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, graduating with a 2:1 in law. [12] He was called to the bar of England and Wales in 1994 at Lincoln's Inn. Lammy went on to study at Harvard University, where he became the first black Briton to attend Harvard Law School; he studied for a Master of Laws degree and graduated in 1997. [12] [13]
After Harvard, Lammy was employed as an attorney at Howard Rice in California from 1997 to 1998, and with D.J. Freeman from 1998 to 2000. [5] He is a visiting professor of practice at SOAS. [14] [15]
In 2000 Lammy was elected for Labour on the London-wide list to the London Assembly. During the London election campaign Lammy was selected as the Labour candidate for Tottenham when Bernie Grant died. He was elected to the seat in a by-election held on 22 June 2000 with 53.5% of the vote and a majority of 5,646. [16] Aged 27, he was the youngest Member of Parliament (MP) in the house until 2003 when Sarah Teather was elected. [17]
Lammy was re-elected as MP for Tottenham at the 2001 general election with an increased vote share of 67.5% and an increased majority of 16,916. [18]
In 2002, he was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health. [19] In 2003, Lammy was appointed by Blair as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Constitutional Affairs [20] and while a member of the Government, voted in favour of authorisation for Britain to invade Iraq in 2003. [21]
At the 2005 general election, Lammy was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 57.9% and a decreased majority of 13,034. [22] After the election, Blair appointed Lammy as Minister for Culture at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. [20]
In June 2007, new Prime Minister Gordon Brown demoted Lammy to the rank of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. In October 2008, he was promoted by Brown to Minister of State and appointed to the Privy Council. In June 2009, Brown appointed Lammy as Minister for Higher Education in the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, leading the Commons ministerial team as Lord Mandelson was Secretary of State. [20]
At the 2010 general election, Lammy was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 59.3% and an increased majority of 16,931. [23] After Labour lost the election, Lammy returned to the backbenches, and a Labour Party leadership contest was announced. During the contest Lammy nominated Diane Abbott, saying that he felt it was important to have a diverse field of candidates, but subsequently declared his support for David Miliband. After the election of Ed Miliband, Lammy pledged his full support but turned down a post in the Shadow Cabinet, higlighting the need to speak on a wide range of issues that would arise in his constituency due to "large cuts in the public services". [24]
In 2012, Lammy pledged his support to Ken Livingstone's bid to become the Labour London mayoral candidate in the 2012 London mayoral election, declaring him "London's Mayor in waiting". [25] Lammy became Livingstone's selection campaign chair. In 2014, Lammy announced that he was considering entering the race to become Mayor of London in the 2016 election. [26]
Lammy was again re-elected at the 2015 general election with an increased vote share of 67.3% and an increased majority of 23,564. [27] [28] Following the party's defeat, Lammy was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn, whom he is good friends with, as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. [29] [30]
On 4 September 2014, Lammy announced his intention to seek the Labour nomination for the 2016 mayoral election. [31] In the London Labour Party's selection process, he secured 9.4% of first preference votes and was fourth overall, behind Sadiq Khan, Tessa Jowell, and Diane Abbott. [32]
In March 2016, he was fined £5,000 for instigating 35,629 automatic phone calls urging people to back his mayoral campaign without gaining permission to contact the party members concerned. Lammy apologised "unreservedly" for breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. [33] It was the first time a politician had been fined for authorising nuisance calls. [34]
At the snap 2017 general election, Lammy was again re-elected with an increased vote share of 81.6% and an increased majority of 34,584. [35] [36]
At the 2019 general election, Lammy was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 76% and a decreased majority of 30,175. [37] [38]
Lammy endorsed Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner in the 2020 Labour leadership and deputy leadership elections. [39] [40] After Starmer was elected Labour leader in April 2020, Lammy was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice. [41]
In the November 2021 Shadow Cabinet reshuffle, Lammy was promoted to Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs. [42]
Lammy attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting in Washington, D.C. [43] He also attended the meeting in Lisbon the following year. [44]
In August 2022, an inquiry found that he had inadvertently breached the MPs' code of conduct. He apologised in a letter to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone. [45]
On 19 November 2023, Lammy visited Israel and had a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Eli Cohen. [46] In January 2024, his speech was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters. [47]
In January 2023, Lammy visited Northern Ireland with Shadow Secretary Peter Kyle and Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Jenny Chapman, visiting Foyle Port to make a statement on the Northern Ireland Protocol. [48]
Lammy has talked about black and minority ethnic people, in particular younger people, with regards to their relation with crime and how they are treated by the criminal justice system. [49]
On 11 August 2011, in an address to Parliament, Lammy attributed part of the cause for England's riots of a few days earlier to destructive "cultures" that had emerged under the prevailing policies. [50] He also stated that legislation restricting the degree of violence that parents are allowed to use when disciplining their children was partly to blame for current youth culture, that had contributed to the riots. [51]
In September 2017 Lammy stated that the criminal justice system deals with "disproportionate numbers" of young people from black and ethnic minority communities: despite saying that although decisions to charge were "broadly proportionate", he asserted that black and ethnic minority people still face and perceive bias. [52] Lammy said that young black people are nine times more likely to be incarcerated than "comparable" white people, and proposed a number of measures including a system of "deferred prosecution" for young first time offenders to reduce incarcerations. [53] Lammy has claimed that black and ethnic minority people offend "at the same rates" as comparable white people "when taking age and socioeconomic status into account"; however, they were more likely to be stopped and searched, if charged, more likely to be convicted, more likely to be sent to prison and less likely to get support in prison. [54]
In 2018, Lammy blamed the then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan for failing to take responsibility over fatal stabbings in London. [30] He also criticised inequality, high youth unemployment among black males, and local authorities cutting youth services and outreach programmes. [55]
Lammy has commented on Britain's history of slavery. [56] [57] [58] He has also criticised the University of Oxford for admitting relatively few black students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds. [59] He believes the Windrush scandal concerns injustice to a generation who are British, have made their homes and worked in Britain and deserve to be treated better. [60]
On 5 February 2013, Lammy gave a speech in the House of Commons on why he would be voting in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, critically comparing the relegation of British same-sex couples to civil partnerships to the "separate but equal" legal doctrine that justified Jim Crow laws in the 20th-century United States. [61]
In January 2016, Lammy was commissioned by then-Prime Minister David Cameron to report on the effects of racial discrimination and disadvantage on the procedures of the police, courts, prisons and the probation service. Lammy published his report in September 2017, concluding that prosecutions against some BAME suspects should be delayed or dropped outright to mitigate racial bias. [62] [63]
He has spoken out against antisemitism within the Labour Party, and attended an Enough is Enough rally. At the rally, Lammy stated that antisemitism has "come back because extremism has come back" and is damaging support for Labour among Britain's Jewish community. [64]
Lammy recorded a Channel 4 documentary for Remembrance Sunday called The Unremembered: Britain's Forgotten War Heroes, which was broadcast on 10 November 2019. In it he reveals how Africans who died in their own continent serving Britain during WWI were denied the honour of an individual grave, despite the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's reputation for equality. [65] The documentary was produced by Professor David Olusoga's production company; Olusoga described the failure to commemorate black and Asian soldiers as one of the "biggest scandals" he had ever come across. [66]
The documentary inspired an investigation by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. [67] The subsequent report found that "pervasive racism" underpinned the failure to properly commemorate service personnel. The report stated that up to 54,000 casualties of "certain ethnic groups" did not receive the same remembrance treatment as white soldiers who had died and another 350,000 military personnel recruited from east Africa and Egypt were not commemorated by name or even at all. [68] In April 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered an "unreserved apology" over the findings of the review. [67] Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace apologised in the House of Commons, promising to make amends and take action. [69] Lammy, who was critical to bringing the matter to light, called this a "watershed moment". [67]
Lammy considers himself English and has said: "I'm of African descent, African-Caribbean descent, but I am English." [70] In March 2021, Lammy was a guest on LBC when he rejected a caller's assertion that the dual identity of African-Caribbean descent and English nationality is impossible. [71] [72]
In October 2022, Lammy called for a full investigation into an alleged security breach by Suella Braverman. Lammy said: "The home secretary is the most serious job you could have in our state. This is a person who makes judgements about terrorism and counter-terrorism, who makes judgements about very, very serious offenders, whether they should be allowed out of prison, and for that reason, it's someone who, I'm afraid, judgement is critically important. I'm afraid this is a lapse of judgement that, quite rightly, she was sacked for. The question is, why was she brought back?" [73]
Lammy is a staunch advocate of British membership of the European Union. On 23 June 2018, he appeared at the People's Vote march in London to mark the second anniversary of the referendum to leave the European Union. The People's Vote was a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union. [74] On 30 December 2020, he voted for the Brexit deal negotiated by Boris Johnson's Government.
Lammy has stressed wanting to maintain a strong relationship with the United States. On a trip to Washington D.C. in May 2024, Lammy spoke at the Hudson Institute where he described himself as a "good Christian" and "small-c conservative" who had common cause with the U.S. Republican Party. [75]
David Lammy is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. [76]
In Lammy's book, Out of the Ashes, Lammy stated in reference to the 2011 England riots that, "If parents were allowed to hit their children, the riots wouldn't have happened" and has said the ban on smacking children should be overturned. [77] [78]
Lammy described the Grenfell Tower fire as "corporate manslaughter" and called for arrests to be made; [79] his friend Khadija Saye died in the fire. [80] [81] He also criticised the authorities for failing to say how many people had died. [82] He has written about what he believes to be the shortcomings of the housing market. [83]
Lammy supports shared parental leave, which he maintains would "normalise" fathers being an equal parent with the mother, and would mean they become more involved in the raising of children, arguing that the barriers to "fathers playing a deeper role in family life" are not just legislative, but also cultural. He points out Scandinavian countries such as Sweden as examples of where governments have successfully made this happen, which he states has also helped increase gender equality. [6] [84]
In 2013, Lammy accused the BBC of making a "silly innuendo about the race" on Twitter during the announcement of the next Pope when the BBC tweeted "will smoke be black or white?" in reference to smoke above the Sistine Chapel. Lammy criticised the BBC's tweet as "crass and unnecessary." He subsequently apologised after other Twitter users pointed out the role played by black and white smoke in announcing the election of a new Pope. [85] [86]
In January 2016, Lammy claimed that one million Indians sacrificed their lives during the Second World War, not for the survival of Britain and to fight Nazism, but instead for the "European Project."; the statement was strongly criticised and ridiculed by The Spectator . [87] [88]
In January 2019, Lammy described Rod Liddle having a column in a weekly newspaper as a "national disgrace" and accused Liddle of having "white middle class privilege" for expressing the view that absent fathers played a role in violent crime involving black youths. [89] Writing in an article for The Spectator , Liddle disputed Lammy's claim that he was raised in a family reliant on tax credits, which were not introduced in the United Kingdom until Lammy was aged 31. [90]
In April 2019, Lammy was criticised for saying his comparison of the Brexit European Research Group (which consists of Conservative MPs) to Nazis and proponents of the South African apartheid was "not strong enough". [91]
In late 2023, following an IDF bombing of the Jabalia refugee camp, Lammy commented that the strike was wrong "when it comes to the ethics," but also that "if there is a military objective it can be legally justifiable". The comments were critised by the Muslim Council of Britain as shameful and morally depraved. [92]
In 2017, writing in The Guardian , Lammy argued that Comic Relief perpetuated problematic stereotypes of Africa, and that they had a responsibility to use its powerful position to move the debate on in a more constructive way by establishing an image of African people as equals. [93] His comments came after a video featuring Ed Sheeran meeting and rescuing a child in Liberia was criticised as "poverty porn" and was given the "Rusty Radiator" award for the "most offensive and stereotypical fundraising video of the year". [94] [95] In 2018, in response to Lammy's comments and the backlash to Sheeran's video, Comic Relief announced they would take steps towards change by halting their use of celebrities for appeals. [96]
In February 2019, Lammy criticised Stacey Dooley for photographs she posted on social media of her trip to Uganda for Comic Relief, and said that "the world does not need any more white saviours", and that she was "perpetuating 'tired and unhelpful stereotypes' about Africa". [97] [98] He also stated however, that he does not question her "good motives". [99] The donations received for the Red Nose Day broadcast in March 2019 fell by £8 million and the money raised that year was the lowest since 2007, which some have blamed on Lammy's remarks. Critics of his view included Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales [100] and Conservative Party MP Chris Philp. [101] Lammy responded to criticism with a statement in which he referred to the decline in donations being due to contributing factors of austerity, declining viewing figures, trends in the charity sector and format fatigue and that he hoped his comments "would inspire the charity to refresh its image and think harder about the effects its output has on our perceptions of Africa". [102]
Following this, In October 2020, Comic Relief announced it would stop sending celebrities to Africa for its fundraising films. [103] They stated that they would no longer send celebrities to Africa nor portray Africa with images of starving people or critically ill children, [104] instead, they would be using local filmmakers to provide a more "authentic" perspective and give agency back to African people. [105]
Lammy married the artist Nicola Green in 2005; [5] the couple have two sons and a daughter. [106] [107] Lammy is a Christian. [108] [109] He is also a Tottenham Hotspur F.C. fan. [110] He states that his identity is "African, African-Caribbean, British, English, a Londoner and European". [109] "I'm black, I'm English, I'm British and I'm proud." [71]
In November 2011, he published a book, Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots , about the 2011 England riots. [111] In 2020, he published his second book, Tribes, which explored social division and the need for belonging. [112]
Lammy features as one of the 100 Great Black Britons on both the 2003 and 2020 lists. [113] [114] He has regularly been included in the Powerlist as one of the most influential people in the UK of African/African-Caribbean descent, including the most recent editions published in 2020 and 2021. [115]
Since 2019, Lammy has received the highest income on top of his MP's salary among Labour Party MPs. [116]
Lammy is a presenter on LBC and hosts a weekly Sunday show, from 10am to 1pm. [117]
Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who is a serving Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since being elected in 1987. She served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020 and is an advisor to the Privy Council. She is both the first black woman elected to parliament and the longest-serving black MP. She remains a member of the Labour Party, while sitting in the House of Commons as an independent, having had the whip suspended in April 2023.
Sir Christopher John Bryant is a British politician and former Anglican priest who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda since 2001. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Shadow Minister for Creative Industries and Digital since 2023.
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2023. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central since the 1999 by-election. Benn previously served as Environment Secretary and Development Secretary and as Chairman of the Brexit Select Committee.
In British politics, Blairism is the political ideology of Tony Blair, the former leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister between 1997 and 2007, and those that support him, known as Blairites. It entered the New Penguin English Dictionary in 2000. Elements of the ideology include investment in public services, expansionary efforts in education to encourage social mobility, and increased actions in terms of mass surveillance alongside a ramping up of law enforcement powers, both of these latter changes advocated in the context of fighting organized crime and terrorism. Blairites have additionally been known for their contrast with the traditional support for socialism by those believing in left-wing politics, with Blair himself and others speaking out against the nationalisation of major industries and against also heavy regulations of business operations. On foreign policy, Blairism is supportive of close relations with the United States and liberal interventionism, including advocacy for both the Iraq war and the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021).
Douglas Garven Alexander is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, previously Paisley South, from 1997 until his defeat in 2015. During this time, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Scottish Secretary, Transport Secretary and International Development Secretary in the Cabinet under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He subsequently served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, London, from 1987 to his death in 2000.
Dawn Petula Butler is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent Central since 2015.
Tottenham is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by David Lammy of the Labour Party. Lammy has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 in the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer, in which he previously served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor from 2020 to 2021. Tottenham was re-created as a parliamentary constituency in 1950, having previously existed from 1885 to 1918.
Chuka Harrison Umunna is a British businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he was part of the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 to 2015. He left Labour in February 2019, when he resigned to form The Independent Group, later Change UK, along with six other MPs. Later in 2019, he left Change UK and, after a short time as an independent MP, joined the Liberal Democrats. In the 2019 general election, he was unsuccessful in being re-elected as an MP and did not return to the House of Commons.
Lisa Eva Nandy is a British Labour Party politician serving as Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development in 2023. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010. Nandy previously served as Shadow Foreign Secretary, Shadow Levelling Up Secretary and Shadow Energy Secretary.
Steven Mark Ward Reed is a British politician who has been Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since September 2023. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon North since a 2012 by-election.
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth is a British politician who has served as Shadow Paymaster General since September 2023. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South since 2011.
Lucy Maria Powell is a British politician serving as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons since 2023. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Central since 2012.
Catherine Elizabeth West is an Australian-born Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey and Wood Green in May 2015.
The 2015 Labour Party leadership election was triggered by the resignation of Ed Miliband as Leader of the Labour Party on 8 May 2015, following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election. Harriet Harman, the Deputy Leader, became Acting Leader but announced that she would stand down following the leadership election. It was won by Jeremy Corbyn in the first round. Coterminous with the leadership election, in the 2015 Labour Party deputy leadership election, Tom Watson was elected to succeed Harman as deputy leader.
Kevin John Foster is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Torbay since 2015. He served as Minister of State for Transport from September 2022 until October 2022. Foster served under Home Secretary Priti Patel as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safe and Legal Migration from 2019 until September 2022.
Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan is a British politician and medical doctor serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 2016. A member of the Labour Party, she attended shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Mental Health from 2020 to 2023.
Preet Kaur Gill is a British Labour Party politician serving as Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Public Health since 2023. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston since 2017.
Charalambos "Bambos" Charalambous is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa from 2021 to 2023.
On 29 November 2021, Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom, carried out a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet. The slimmed down shadow cabinet, was seen to be Starmer creating a top team in his own image.
David Lammy's book Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots [...] is about more than the English riots, it's about the future of Labour in the country.