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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour and Emma Graham-Harrison

David Lammy: ‘Britain has to start reconnecting with a dangerous, divided world’

David Lammy
David Lammy has taken up his position at a time of immense foreign policy challenges. Photograph: Lauren Hurley/No 10 Downing Street

Britain must reconnect with the rest of the world with major resets in climate change policy, and in the country’s relationships with Europe and with the global south, foreign secretary David Lammy has said in an interview with the Guardian before his first international trip.

Lammy has taken up his position, one of the four great offices of state, at a time of immense foreign policy challenges, from two major wars to global inertia about tackling a warming planet.

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