With Russia on the march and the end of post-Cold War peace, David Lammy has argued that Europe’s defence spending must rise. The foreign secretary said for the UK to be “taken seriously… we must put our money where our mouth is” in his first major speech of 2025.

“Russia lost 45,000 troops, dead, in November alone.” On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme [2:18:20] on Thursday (9 January), foreign secretary David Lammy MP claimed that Russia had “lost 45,000 troops, dead, in November alone” in the war with Ukrain

The series of rooms, which act "as a memorial to a supposed diplomatic triumph promising an era of international cooperation", were supposed to be the perfect backdrop for Labour to set out its vision for a more "progressive reality".

Former First Minister Humza Yousaf has accused Foreign Secretary David Lammy of racism over his diplomatic meeting with an Israeli Minister during Gaza ceasefire negotiations. Yousaf claimed the different diplomatic approaches taken towards Israel compared to Russia's invasion of Ukraine revealed racist double standards in British foreign policy.

Russia’s fleet of ageing oil tankers could ... Members of parliament have written a letter to Foreign Secretary David Lammy warning of the potentially catastrophic dangers from the ‘ticking ...

The Foreign Secretary has called on the incoming US president to say how he will pay for a massive increase in defence spending.

Foreign secretary also hit back at Trump’s demands that the UK double its defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP

Humza Yousaf has accused David Lammy of racism for meeting with an Israeli ... The former first minister compared Israeli military action to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but claimed the Foreign ...

NATO's current target for members' defense spending is 2 percent of their country's GDP. Trump has repeatedly called on the alliance to increase this amount.

LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Jan 9 refused to condemn President-elect ... Mr Lammy added that Trump was addressing valid “concerns about Russia and China in the Arctic” as well as “national economic security” in his Greenland ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that “the post-Cold War peace is well and ... It’s myopia to pretend otherwise with Russia on the march,” Lammy said during a speech in London setting out the center-left Labour government’s approach to foreign ...

The UK has not carried out a single conviction for breaches of Russian sanctions, the National Crime Agency has said. Financial sanctions on Russia were introduced following the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the wider invasion of Ukraine in 2022.