David Lammy: “The UK would not tolerate any attempts by foreign governments to coerce, intimidate, harass or harm their critics…”

We’ve got the fastest-growing economy in the G7, borrowing is down and we just signed our fifth major trade deal.

I said, ‘Look, Mr vice-president, you’re wrong about this’.

There's nothing easy about being gripped by a judge, having to meet the obligations to attend alcohol or drug addiction supervision, knowing that if you slip up, you are going to go to prison and you could serve 28 days, for example, in…

For centuries, the law failed to protect women from violence at the hands of their partner – whether from marital rape or from abuse behind closed doors. Whilst we’ve made significant progress, we need to continue righting these wrongs.