David Lammy

UK's Starmer reshuffles top team to restore authority after Rayner blow

Rayner was accused of breaching the ministerial code by failing to pay taxes correctly.

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BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer speaks at the House of Commons last month. ‘Do what I ask or I will be forced to give you what you want’ is a negotiating strategy so dire that it could only come from this Labour government, says the writer.
FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich walks to attend a press conference last month, announcing the approval of the long-frozen E1 building plans near Ma’aleh Adumim.

My Word: Mideast statements and declarations of intent

Why is it that only when it comes to Israel do foreign politicians and bodies routinely decide what can be built where?

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A Palestinian woman carries a box as people seek aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in the central Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025.

UK offers fully funded scholarships to Gazan students, medical aid for children

Lammy and Cooper said that their government was also bringing Gazan children in need of medical care to receive treatment from UK National Health Service specialists.

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A doctor checks Palestinian girl Jana Ayad, who is malnourished, according to medics, as she receives treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, June 22, 2024.

Hundreds of Gazan children to be evacuated to the UK for medical treatment by NHS - report

The nearly 300 Gazan children are expected to never return back home, sources told the Sunday Times.

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UK backs future Palestinian statehood but says ceasefire top priority

Successive British governments have said they would formally recognize a Palestinian state at the right time, without ever setting a timetable or specifying the conditions for it to happen.

JULY 25, 2025ByREUTERS
IRONICALLY, ALTERNATIVES to a two-state solution don’t necessarily provide any sort of protection from the violence against Israel.

UK discovers Russian 'espionage tool', sanctions GRU officers over cyberattacks

"GRU spies are running a campaign to destabilize Europe, undermine Ukraine's sovereignty and threaten the safety of British citizens," Foreign Minister David Lammy said.

JULY 18, 2025ByREUTERS
GRU, Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate logo is reflected in an eye in this picture illustration taken October 4, 2018.

UK reestablishes diplomatic ties with Syria as Lammy visits Damascus

Syria’s state media noted, “during the meeting, bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to enhance cooperation were discussed, in addition to regional and international development."

JULY 6, 2025BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrives for a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Nicosia, Cyprus July 4, 2025.

UK reestablishes diplomatic ties with Syria as Lammy visits Damascus

"There is renewed hope for the Syrian people," UK FM David Lammy said during his visit to Damascus.

JULY 5, 2025ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY David Lammy walks on Downing Street last week. In the House of Commons, he rose to his feet and read out a statement condemning how the war in Gaza was being conducted by the Israeli government.

Europe's nuclear offers are 'unrealistic,' senior Iranian officials say as war with Israel rages

An Iranian official said that zero enrichment was a dead end and that Iran would not negotiate over its defensive capabilities, including its missile program.

JUNE 21, 2025ByREUTERS
Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, flanked by France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas speaks to media after nuclear talk in Geneva.

UK working with Israel to arrange charter flights out of Tel Aviv, Lammy says

Israel's main international gateway, Ben Gurion Airport, closed last week due to Israel and Iran's spiraling air war.

JUNE 20, 2025ByREUTERS
Illustrative image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy

UK joins others in sanctioning Ben-Gvir, Smotrich over 'monstrous' Gaza comments

Britain will join Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others over quotes that British Foreign Secretary David Lammy described as “monstrous.”

JUNE 10, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(L-R) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

UK freezes Israel trade deal over Gaza offensive, places sanctions on West Bank settlers

"The British Mandate ended exactly 77 years ago," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in response.

MAY 20, 2025ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech, following his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, in London, Britain, July 6, 2024.

UK munitions transfers to Israel continued despite supposed cut off - report

The report claims UK firms have continued to export munitions and F-35 parts.

MAY 8, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy seen over a missile and the London Eye (illustrative)

British lawyers file war crimes complaint against 10 British citizens who served in IDF

Attorney Michael Mansfield and six other lawyers reportedly filed a 240-page report allegedly implicating the UK citizens dual-nationals in “involvement” in war crimes,

APRIL 7, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR
IDF troops operating in northern Gaza, April 4, 2025.

'Israel is breaching int'l law by cutting off Gaza aid' UK FM Lammy says

His comments came before Israel began renewed strikes on targets in Gaza later on Monday night.

MARCH 18, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
FILE PHOTO: Britain's new foreign secretary, David Lammy, is pictured at a meeting in Beirut, Lebanon in January 12, 2024.