David Lammy
Former UK Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister
David Lammy is the Member of Parliament for Tottenham and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He previously served as Foreign Secretary during a period of extraordinary geopolitical upheaval, helping steer British diplomacy through crises in the Middle East and deepening support for Ukraine while navigating a changing relationship with the United States. In 2017, he led an independent review into the treatment and outcomes of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic people in the criminal justice system, and before that he served as a minister in several departments as part of the Labour government from 2001 to 2010. He is the author of Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots (2011) and Tribes: How Our Need to Belong Can Make or Break Society (2020).
