# David Lammy

### Context

David Lammy is a British Labour politician who served as foreign secretary from July 2024 to September 2025 and
later held senior justice and deputy-prime-minister roles. The most useful way to place this record in context is to
start with the institution or movement through which the person could actually exercise influence, rather than
treating visibility as equivalent to control. Lammy has represented Tottenham in Parliament since 2000 and built a
long front-bench career before becoming foreign secretary in July 2024, taking office as the Labour government
inherited wars in Ukraine and Gaza and a strained global security environment. That baseline is supported by
[GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/people/david-lammy), which anchors the chronology and the relevant office,
legal proceeding, campaign or movement. The surrounding context matters because political and social outcomes are
usually produced by coalitions, institutions and external constraints as well as individual choices. As of October
2026 the government biography lists those cabinet posts as previous roles rather than current offices. A second
source, [UK Parliament](https://members.parliament.uk/), helps distinguish the durable part of the record from later
interpretation or reputation.

### Record

The documented record has two especially important strands. First, Lammy has represented Tottenham in Parliament
since 2000 and built a long front-bench career before becoming foreign secretary in July 2024, taking office as the
Labour government inherited wars in Ukraine and Gaza and a strained global security environment. Second, The current
GOV.UK record states that he left the Foreign Office in September 2025 and subsequently served as lord chancellor,
justice secretary and deputy prime minister from September 2025 to July 2026. Read together, these events identify
where David Lammy had direct agency and where the person operated through a larger institution, coalition, court,
company, union or movement. [GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/people/david-lammy) supports the first strand,
while [UK Parliament](https://members.parliament.uk/) supports the second. That distinction prevents
over-attribution: holding a title can create leverage, but it does not mean every outcome during a tenure was
personally authored. At the same time, formal limits do not erase responsibility for decisions, testimony,
organizing, bargaining or public advocacy that the evidence connects directly to David Lammy.

## Dated facts

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## Methodology

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