We don’t have a lot of time, do we?” David Lammy says as I sit down next to him. “Sorry about that!” We’re meeting in a bistro near parliament, and it is nearly empty. That’s no surprise; Britain’s general election is a couple of weeks away, and everyone has decamped to their part of the country to campaign.
This is why Lammy’s team could offer me only half an hour with the then-shadow foreign secretary. He was already a busy man, and now he’s about to get busier, following his official appointment as foreign secretary last Friday. The day before that, Labour pulled off one of the largest landslides in UK political history.
