That last quality explains Sir Olly’s imminent return to Whitehall from the private sector, as the permanent under-secretary, ...

Lammy said he had “real concerns about some of what I’ve seen” from Musk. But he said British officials have not asked Trump or members of his incoming administration to rein in the X and ...

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Europe’s defence spending must rise with “Russia on the march” and “post-Cold War peace” over, David Lammy has said, as he stated: “Donald Trump and JD Vance are simply right”.

David Lammy has declared that the hard-won “post-Cold War peace is well and truly over” as he used his first major speech of 2025 to take aim at Vladimir Putin and Russian aggression.

The intensity of US President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric and his unpredictability can be “destabilising”, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said. Mr Lammy also criticised Elon Musk ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Foreign secretary David Lammy has suggested that the “intensity” of Donald Trump’s rhetoric can be “destabilising”, amid the ...

David Lammy has refused to rule out the UK potentially keeping the Chagos Islands as the Government’s deal to hand them over to Mauritius hangs in the balance. The proposed pact, one of Sir Keir ...

David Lammy told the BBC that he believes Mr Trump’s comments earlier in the week about Greenland – in which he made clear that he would want the territory under US control – come from his ...

Foreign secretary David Lammy laughed off Donald Trump’s threat to seize Greenland, describing the president-elect’s plans as “classic Donald Trump”. Trump said this week that he could not ...