I will continue to serve the great people of Tottenham, support this Labour government from the backbenches and do everything I can to help defeat Reform again at the next general election.
David Lammy
The Public Record
★ Featured Quote
July 21, 2026
I am immensely proud of what we achieved, in Opposition and in Government.
— David Lammy
That's why I'm reforming archaic rules, so couples have more freedom to say 'I do' on their own terms, while strengthening safeguards to protect the meaning and permanence of marriage.
They say you can't put a price on love – but too often, the cost of weddings puts this commitment out of reach.
So I think in office we did a lot, but clearly those initial steps were problematic.
The PM in that LBC interview… got us off to a bad start in opposition and I think he's acknowledged that and that's definitely the case.
I have the honour to say that His Majesty the King has accepted our advice to grant Ruth Ellis a conditional pardon – the last woman to be hanged.
The city trader, Putin admiring professional politician who's pals with crypto billionaires versus Count BinFace.
Well, can I commend my honourable friend for the difference that he's made, including his hard work to bring pride of place funding to his constituency.
Everyone can see that the Reform leader is just trying to distract from the fact that he's up to his neck in sleaze.
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.
This change closes a long overdue gap and will ensure those who murder their partner face sentences that better reflect the devastating harm they cause.
Kemi Badenoch's attack on Bridget Phillipson at PMQs today lays bare something deeper about the direction of their politics.
We’ve got the fastest-growing economy in the G7, borrowing is down and we just signed our fifth major trade deal.
MPs would “remember our beloved colleague Jo Cox, and honour her memory for working to bring our communities together, celebrating the decency and compassion that defines this country”.
The intensive supervision courts are a key plank of reducing reoffending that is cost-effective.
It really isn't good for taxpayers' money or good for victims of crime if people experience the criminal justice system and then go on to reoffend and reoffending rates are running at about 67% often in this area, so we need to get that…
I think that what the public want to see, understandably, if you've committed a crime, is punishment, but they also want to see rehabilitation, and so I tend to talk about punishment that works, and the emphasis on works is important.
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…
We've moved on from that period of institutional racism that was very real in policing in the past.
It is still the case that on arrest, on prosecution, conviction, I'm afraid in our prisons, ethnic minorities are disproportionately in the criminal justice system.





