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The Latest Breaking News from David Lammy

Defiant Starmer to take Labour message to country despite calls for him to quit over Mandelson

Downing Street says PM will be ‘out and about’ in the coming week ‘making the case for why [his] government is delivering for working people’

The Independent UK

Mandelson-Starmer latest: Starmer ally admits PM ‘must take responsibility’ over scandal as pressure grows

Lord Mandelson is being asked to give back an exit payment he received after being unceremoniously sacked from office

The Independent UK

‘Supermax-style units’ for most dangerous criminals to be introduced in England and Wales

David Lammy also tells MPs he will draw up legislation to stop prisoners using human rights laws to challenge tougher conditions

The Guardian - UK

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London Assembly demands apology for sacked 'hero' bus driver as 137,000 people sign petition

David Lammy told the House of Commons: ‘I’m very grateful, Mark is of course a hero and deserves our support’

Evening Standard

Bus theft victim felt ‘so guilty’ after hero driver lost his job

More than 125,000 people have signed a petition in support

The Independent UK

Meeting requested with David Lammy over Isle of Man assisted dying law ‘delay’

Alex Allinson said he wanted an assurance that the ‘rate of progress for assent is neither anomalous nor been subject to any artificial impediment’.

Evening Standard

One man’s struggle lights up a wider scandal

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: We urge ministers to read Haroon Ahmed’s story and to summon the courage to end the injustice of indefinite sentences for 2,400 other prisoners

The Independent UK

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David Lammy's My London: dog walks in the park, letting loose at Spurs and trying to resist KFC

The Deputy Prime Minister on his favourite spots in the capital

Evening Standard

Klepto capital: How London became a dirty money hub

Kleptocrats and fraudsters of the world have been washing their illicit billions in the city. Rachael Burford looks at how we can clean up our reputation as a global laundromat

Evening Standard

Starmer indicates he will not U-turn on plan to scrap some jury trials

Prime minister says move is crucial to delivering justice to victims of misogynist violence who ‘wait so long’

The Guardian - UK

UK condemns ‘brutal’ Iranian regime as Donald Trump sends armada to region

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy criticised Iran’s regime but declined to commit to banning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner ‘to back Andy Burnham standing as MP’ paving way for Westminster return

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has been seen as a rival to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership

The Independent UK

Labour MP who was groomed asks colleagues to back judge-only trials

Exclusive: Natalie Fleet says power balance is with criminals not victims as delays make ‘hell of being raped’ worse

The Guardian - UK

Burnham warned not to ‘rock the boat’ with Starmer leadership challenge

Labour’s deputy prime minister David Lammy cautioned that his party – trailing Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the polls – could be forced to call an early general election if it changed leader

The Independent UK

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The Conversation

Starmer’s response to Trump’s Greenland outburst shows good old British pragmatism only goes so far

Having thus far taken a highly cautious line with the capricious Donald Trump, Keir Starmer broke with the US president this week over the latter’s desire to acquire Greenland.

Evening Standard

UK and Europe’s ‘displeasure’ prompted Trump’s Greenland U-turn, says Lammy

The row over Greenland has proved a major flashpoint in relations between the US and Europe.

The Guardian - UK

Judge-only trials in England and Wales will not wipe out crown court backlog, report says

IFG says proposed plans, which will slash the number of jury trials, will produce ‘marginal gains’ of less than 2% time saved

The Guardian - UK

Minister defends UK’s decision not to hit back at Trump tariffs threat, saying ‘aim is to de-escalate’ – as it happened

Development minister defends Keir Starmer playing down the prospect of retaliatory tariffs

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The Guardian - UK

The trials of setting up David Lammy’s ‘swift courts’

Letters: Adjustments to the plans to limit jury trials face a major obstacle, writes Janet Carter; plus letters from Kirsty Brimelow KC and Paul Keleher KC

Evening Standard

Ministers ‘ready to quit’ in rebellion against scrapping of jury trials

The prime minister is looking to scrap jury trials for certain cases in an effort to reduce backlogs in the justice system

International Business Times UK

Jimmy Mizen Killer, Jake Fahri, Blocked From Open Prison After Sick Rap Boasting of Slaying

The Justice Secretary blocks Jake Fahri's move to an open prison after shocking drill lyrics about Jimmy Mizen's murder emerge, reigniting fury over rehabilitation, victims' rights and public safety.

Evening Standard

Lammy blocks open prison move for killer of London schoolboy Jimmy Mizen 'who rapped about murder'

Jake Fahri was jailed for life in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing Jimmy Mizen in Lee, south London

The Independent UK

Lammy blocks open prison transfer for killer accused of rapping about murdering schoolboy

The killer was sentenced to life in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years

Evening Standard

Britain and Ukraine stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’, Lammy says on Kyiv visit

The Deputy Prime Minister visited Ukraine’s capital to mark the first anniversary of a 100-year partnership agreement between the two countries.

Evening Standard

Legislation to ban non-consensual sexual images signed amid Grok AI backlash

It will be illegal to create or request deepfake intimate images of adults without consent from February 6.

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