Shadow Cabinetmight be serious about getting into government when, a few years later, I turned up to another fringe meeting with Lammy at the 2022 Labour Party conference hoping that he might do some more shouting. Instead, I found myself watching Serious Lammy, who only got mildly animated when someone in the audience suggested Labour would bring back the International Development Department in its current form.
Labour has manifestly been serious about government for a long while now, and so Lammy is at the stage of fleshing out the party’s foreign policy. He has written ain which he analyses the traditions of previous Labour foreign secretaries, and proposes a “progressive realism” in foreign policy. This is one which still wants to commit to ideals while also dealing with the world as it is.
Lammy talks about building “closer foreign and security co-operation with the EU” and seeking a “new geopolitical partnership with the EU”. Renegotiating partnerships with the EU is something Cameron is famously bad at. It may well be that Labour’s own version of a relationship with the EU is also a messy mistake- the Tories would like to say that Keir Starmer wants to take Britain right back into the EU altogether – but it would be better for a different David to preside over that.
Besides, there doesn’t seem to be a vacancy. Lammy and Starmer enjoy a very good and close personal relationship. The Labour leader really likes his shadow Foreign Secretary, which counts for a lot. He is, I understand, also very happy with the current arrangement of Lammy covering the Foreign Office, John Healey shadowing defence, and Lisa Nandy doing international development. Lammy wrote the essay himself with his adviser Ben Judah, but Starmer sets the overall direction of foreign policy.
Mind you, the same could be said of the Tory David, whose party colleagues complain is listening too much to his deputy Andrew Mitchell when it comes to talking about Israel. So many different Davids, and so many different David Lammys, for that matter. A lot could change before theKate McCann
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