David Lammy
David Lindon Lammy 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.
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- Out of the Ashes
- Tribes
- Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots
- Leading Together
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- Monarch
- Charles III
- Prime minister
- Keir Starmer
- Preceded by
- Angela Rayner
- Succeeded by
- Yvette Cooper
- 2008 2010
- Higher Education and Intellectual Property
- 2005 2007
- Culture
- 2007 2008
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Member of Parliament for Tottenham Incumbent
Assumed office 22 June 2000 Preceded byBernie Grant Majority15,434 (38.4%) Member of the London Assembly as the 10th Additional Member In office 4 May 2000 – 4 July 2000 Preceded byOffice established Succeeded byJennette Arnold
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1972 birthsActivists against antisemitismAlumni of SOAS University of LondonAnglo-Catholic socialistsBlack British MPsBritish broadcaster-politiciansBritish Christian socialistsBritish Christian ZionistsBritish secretaries of state for foreign and Commonwealth affairsDavid LammyEnglish people of Guyanese descentHarvard Law School alumni