David Lammy has insisted he was not some “whippersnapper” like a young Boris Johnson when he entered Parliament over two decades ago at the age of 27.
The Labour MP - now Keir Starmer’s Shadow Foreign Secretary - was first elected to Parliament at the 2000 election, succeeding Bernie Grant as the MP for Tottenham.
Within a couple of years he was already serving in Tony Blair’s Labour Government and also held ministerial posts in Gordon Brown’s administration.
