David Lammy is on jubilant form, more so on this grey February morning in his sparse Westminster office than ever before. To be fair, previous to this, the only times I’ve encountered him have been when he was giving talks in his constituency. He was in his ‘social justice warrior’ era back then. In recent months the Labour MP for Tottenham and shadow foreign secretary has been debuting a new persona: diplomatic Lammy.
After years in the political wilderness, Labour is finally starting to become a player again — although not really for anything the party itself did. “The truth is the tempo has gone up considerably since September…since the whole Truss economics debacle.”
