Written by David Lammy has said he plans to appoint an envoy to deal with “complex detention cases” involving Britons abroad and give them a legal right to consular access. After the Guardian’s reporting on detained Britons, the foreign secretary said he had been “looking hard” at the thousands of cases a year involving people who require […]
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has played down criticism from the new Mauritian prime minister and the incoming Trump administration of a deal to cede control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Under the agreement, which has still to be signd, the UK would relinquish sovereignty over the archipelago but maintain a 99-year lease over […]
David Lammy berated Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN for fiddling with his mobile phone during a UN Security Council session on a joint UK-Sierra Leone draft resolution calling for a national ceasefire on Monday, 18 November. The foreign secretary criticised Dmitry Polyanskiy for looking down at the device and condemned Russia for […]
Trump ‘didn’t seem to think it mattered’, says Lammy, when asked if past critical comments came up when they had dinner In his interview with the BBC’s Newscast podcast, David Lammy, the foreign secretary, was asked about the dinner he and Keir Starmer had with Donald Trump in New York at the end of September. […]
Foreign secretary David Lammy questioned on calling Trump ‘neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath’ The foreign secretary has dismissed his previous criticism of Donald Trump as “old news” and insisted he would be able to find “common ground” with the president-elect. When he was a backbench MP in 2018, David Lammy described Trump as a “tyrant” and “a woman-hating, […]
President Bola Tinubu receives the UKSecretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, David Lammy President Bola Tinubu on Monday in Abuja said Nigeria is committed to actualising upgraded partnership agreements with the United Kingdom in areas that directly impact citizens’ livelihoods, like arts, culture, trade, and security. This is even as the Nigerian […]
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s visit to China last week could mark a “new starting point” for the two countries despite their deep-rooted disagreements in some areas, Chinese observers have said. Lammy, the first cabinet minister to visit the country since the Labour Party’s election victory in July, finished his two-day tour on Saturday with […]
British foreign minister David Lammy on Saturday called for a resumption of dialogue between London and Beijing, urging the two sides to engage in “more diplomacy” as he concluded a rare diplomatic visit to China. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on October 3, 2024. Photo: Isaac Atkin-Mayne/FCDO. China and Britain are seeking to reset ties […]
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