David Lindon Lammy (born 19 July 1972) is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor since September 2025. He previously served as Foreign Secretary from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since 2000. Lammy previously held various junior ministerial positions under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown between 2002 and 2010.
Born in 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. In 2000, Lammy briefly served in the London Assembly before being elected to Parliament in the 2000 Tottenham by-election. Tony Blair appointed him Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health in 2002 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs in 2003. He was promoted to Minister of State for Culture in 2005. In 2007, Gordon Brown appointed him Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills before Lammy served as Minister of State for Higher Education from 2008 to 2010.
Following Labour's defeat in the 2010 general election, Lammy endorsed David Miliband in the 2010 Labour leadership election and subsequently declined to serve in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet. He then spent the next decade on the backbenches, and was a candidate in the 2015 London Labour Party mayoral selection but ultimately finished fourth. Lammy endorsed Keir Starmer in the 2020 Labour leadership election and was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in Starmer's Shadow Cabinet. In the November 2021 Shadow Cabinet reshuffle, he was promoted to Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, Lammy returned to government after being appointed Foreign Secretary by Starmer in his ministry. As Foreign Secretary, Lammy helped negotiate the transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and several trade deals following the introduction of Donald Trump's tariffs. In the 2025 cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor. He is the first person of colour to hold the position.
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Date: 19 July 1972
Price Comm on July 18 denies price increases sought by 23 Amer newspapers owned by Thompson Newspapers Inc on grounds that co would exceed its base period profit margin for current fiscal yr if increases were granted
Date: 19 July 1972
By FRED P. GRAHAMSpecial to The New York Times
Fred GRAHAMSpecial
Fed Dist Judge Byrne on July 18 grants defense motions to disqualify prospective jurors R D Duenckel and T O Meadows Jr because they appear to have special expertise in security matters as result of their aircraft indus jobs; refuses to disqualify D W Silver, challenged 'for cause' by defense on ground that he once went through 'top secret' indoctrination by army; Govt later exercises 4 of its 5 remaining peremptory challenges, and defense expends 10 of its 12 remaining challenges; Ellsberg says in affidavit filed earlier that he once held such high security clearances that in '64 he was permitted to read series of Joint Chiefs of Staff crisis studies whose existence was kept secret from Defense Sec McNamara; gist of affidavit is that handling of classified materials varies widely from place to place, and that persons with security clearances should be excluded from jury because they might be 'shocked' by handling of classified material that would be proper under some ground rules; Byrne rejects defense demands that he question FBI agents who have been gathering information on potential jurors for Govt's counsel; defense asserts that agents may be improperly passing along data from FBI's secret dossiers in Washington, or from other sources that should be equally available to defense
Date: 20 July 1972
Inter-American Press Assn asks on July 19 that Cong enact legis that would allow newsmen to protect anonymity of their sources, in response to recent Sup Ct decison denying newsmen right to keep sources confidential from grand jury inquiries; assn pres J C A Watkins says lack of legis would seriously undermine public's right to be informed
Date: 19 July 1972
AP repts on July 18 that it is holding discussions with Communist Chinese news agency Hsinhua on agreement for exch of news and photos; AP pres W Gallagher, AP Asian Services chief H Hartzenbusch and photographer H Faas are en route to Peking for talks
Date: 19 July 1972
By GRACE LICHTENSTEIN
Grace LICHTENSTEIN
NY Telephone Co proposes charge of 1 message unit for local directory-assistance calls, but with such services remaining free for blind and severely handicapped persons, Public Service Comm hearing; gen rate engineer says handicapped will be required to submit certified physician's statement in order to qualify for exemption; 2 reprs of orgns for blind hold proposal will invade their privacy, hurt job opportunities in which telephone calls are required and ignore problem of elderly and others with poor sight who cannot read tiny print in telephone books
Date: 20 July 1972
Special to The New York Times
(Sen Goldwater Scores Newspaper Guild's Backing of McGovern) Sen Goldwater scores news media for attempting to cover up backing of Sen McGovern by Newspaper Guild exec bd, July 20; demands that orgn clarify its position; endorsement of McGovern by Guild pres C A Perlik recalled; endorsement is 1st by Guild in its 40-yr history; endorsement spurred criticism by some Guild members who were covering conv and held that endorsement would raise questions about objectivity of their pol coverage; petition denouncing endorsement was initiated and some 3 other petitions were circulated in Washington; aims of petitions noted; Goldwater says that endorsement is among most interesting but least written-about stories to emerge from conv; Goldwater press sec T Smith notes that Goldwater only found 1 story on endorsement; AP, UPI and Washington Post wire services reptdly distributed repts on story and Washington Post and Washington Star-Daily News carried 2 articles detailing endorsement and controversy; NY Times carried rept on July 14 and Washington TV station WTOP reptdly is preparing rept to be presented on July 19; Perlik comments on Goldwater's charges
Date: 20 July 1972
Special to The New York Times
Dr E W Garrett pleads guilty on July 19 to reduced charge of interfering with reporter, F Butterfield (NY Times), in pursuit of his occupation during Newark Bd of Educ meeting in Apr '71; was originally indicted on charges of threatening lives of Butterfield and bd member J Cervase; reduction came in agreement with Asst County Prosecutor D Crecca, who permitted Garrett to plead guilty to interference charge as orderly person
Date: 19 July 1972
US Olympic boxing trials to begin July 19 in Fort Worth, Tex; among competitors is convict B L Hunter
Date: 19 July 1972
Special to The New York Times
US Treas, in July 18 reaction to announcement of EEC monetary conf agreement, says US welcomes steps to facilitate discussions of monetary reform issues
Date: 19 July 1972
Japan wins baseball's collegiate 'world series' by defeating US, 5 games to 2, Tokyo