David Lammy
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| Born | 19 July 1972 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | School of Oriental and African Studies, Harvard Law School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Labour Friends of Israel, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
English Labour Party politician, WEF/GLT/2002, publicly apologised for nominating Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader
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David Lammy is an English Labour Party politician who was appointed UK/Foreign Secretary following Labour's landslide victory in the UK/General election/2024.[1]
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Education
Born in Holloway, north London, Lammy attended The King's School, Peterborough. He studied law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and was called to the bar in 1994. He later studied for a Master of Laws degree at Harvard University, becoming the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School.
Career
David Lammy became Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham following the 2000 Tottenham by-election,[2] and is Shadow Foreign Secretary in Keir Starmer's Shadow Cabinet since November 2021.[3]
In December 2021, he apologised for nominating Jeremy Corbyn for leader at a Jewish festival.[4]
This Site has praised David Lammy in the past – particularly over his defence of the Windrush generation of UK citizens the Tories tried to deny and deport. But his latest outburst deserves no support at all. It shows that he is a two-faced fairweather friend who says only what he thinks will help him. We already have a Boris Johnson for that kind of behaviour – and it belongs in the Tory Party, not Labour.[5]
Political opinions
NATO
David Lammy is one of the biggest supporters of NATO in the House of Commons.[6]
Israeli war crimes
In November 2024, African, Caribbean and Asian Lawyers For Justice posted on X:
- Watching @DavidLammy squirm through his disingenuous answer dodging the blindingly obvious conclusion, was a masterclass in ‘erm, erm, erm’ as Labour ideology overruled common sense.
- When words fail you, maybe it’s time to rethink your position. #LeadershipMatters #AwkwardTruths[7]
- Forced displacement is a war crime. What David Lammy is describing here are war crimes.
- So why is David Lammy & the UK government continuing to support and supply the Israeli regime that's committing these war crimes?[8]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2022 | 2 June 2022 | 5 June 2022 | US Washington DC Mandarin Oriental Hotel | The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19 |
| Bilderberg/2023 | 18 May 2023 | 21 May 2023 | Portugal Lisbon Pestana Palace Hotel | The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009. |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2022 | 18 November 2022 | 20 November 2022 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in November 2022 |
| Munich Security Conference/2023 | 17 February 2023 | 19 February 2023 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere. |
| Munich Security Conference/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Existence vs Expansion | blog post | 21 July 2024 | Craig Murray | The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion is extremely lucid and decisive. The ball is now back in the court of the UN General Assembly, which requested the Opinion. The General Assembly now should move to suspend Israel’s membership of the United Nations. That is the next project on which I shall be working. |
| Document:Pulling no punches at yesterday's rally for Palestine in Bath | Speech | 17 November 2024 | Jonathan Cook | "From their own mouths, Lammy and Starmer have told us who they are. They are genocide deniers. They are enablers of genocide. They are conspirators in genocide, just like those who preceded them in the British government." |
| Document:You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? | Article | 4 September 2024 | Jonathan Cook | Western politicians and media are never going to admit that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. The moment they do, the veil of illusions fostered for decades about Israel - designed to conceal the West’s complicity in Israeli crimes - would be torn away. In committing a genocide, a state crosses a threshold. It cannot be armed into moderation. Nor can it be reasoned into peacemaking. It must be aggressively isolated and sanctioned. |
References
- ↑ Document:The Rejection of Starmerism
- ↑ "David Lammy fined over mayoral bid nuisance calls"
- ↑ "Labour reshuffle revealed as David Lammy and Yvette Cooper score top roles"
- ↑ "Labour’s David Lammy apologises for nominating Jeremy Corbyn to be leader"
- ↑ "Two-faced #DavidLammy APOLOGISES for nominating #JeremyCorbyn as #Labour leader. Voters will flee"
- ↑ https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/david-lammy/why-side-with-russia-david-lammy-grills-stop-the-war-coalition-co-founder-on-ukr/
- ↑ "Masterclass in 'erm, erm, erm'"
- ↑ "What David Lammy is describing here are war crimes"
