The Latest Breaking News from David Lammy

Alleged abuse victim faces nine-year wait for justice as court backlog forces trial delay

He says the delay is ‘incomprehensible’

The Independent UK · Dec 28, 2025

Police manhunt for prisoner who absconded on Christmas Day

Mahad Elmi, 27, considered ‘unlawfully at large’ in latest blunder to hit Justice Secretary David Lammy

Evening Standard · Dec 27, 2025

UN experts raise ‘grave concern’ over treatment of Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers

Special rapporteurs say handling of prisoners raises questions over UK’s obligations under human rights laws

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2025

Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy

Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2025

Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital

MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025

Starmer will ‘absolutely’ still be prime minister by next Christmas, says Labour chair – as it happened

Anna Turley says people will start to ‘see and feel’ change in public services and cost of living from next year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025

Farage faces calls to sack candidate who claimed Lammy should ‘go home’

Hampshire and the Solent mayoral candidate Chris Parry’s conduct on X was described as ‘racist and grossly offensive’ by the Labour Party.

Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2025

‘It feels like being suffocated’: Palestine Action activist in HMP Peterborough vows to continue hunger strike

Teuta Hoxha says she remains determined despite growing fears for her health and five other prisoners staging protest

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2025

Pressure on Farage to sack ‘racist’ Reform candidate as he doubles down on claim Lammy should ‘go home’ to Caribbean

‘Farage's refusal to take action against racism in his party shows what a dark place he's dragging politics to,’ says Labour Party chair as Reform’s Hampshire mayor candidate praises Enoch Powell

The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2025

Inside London’s crippling court delays as Labour moves to cut back jury trials

Labour is bringing the axe down on jury trials, but people in court tell a different story of where the chronic delays come from

Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2025