Labour’s David Lammy on Trump, ‘visionary’ Margaret Thatcher and his bid to be the UK’s next foreign secretary
Power Play
POLITICO
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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With the specter of a famine and a possible ground incursion of Rafah looming, Israel's allies are fretting. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned of an impending catastrophe in Gaza. Yet Benjamin Netanyahu says “no international pressure will stop Israel” from achieving its war aims.
The wars in the Middle East and Ukraine and uncertainty about who will be calling the shots in the White House next year are testing European foreign ministers — and those vying for their jobs. Nowhere more so than in Britain’s Labour party, which is under closer scrutiny as it looks likely to form the next U.K. government.
Host Anne McElvoy talks to Labour's David Lammy about the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, cultivating friendships across the aisle in Washington and paying tribute to Margaret Thatcher.
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| 0:00.0 | A famine is now imminent in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:07.0 | A hundred percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. |
| 0:15.0 | As U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin warns of a catastrophe in Gaza, |
| 0:20.0 | Israel's allies are fretful. |
| 0:23.0 | Yet binium and Netanyahu says no international pressure will stop Israel |
| 0:28.0 | from achieving its war aims. |
| 0:30.0 | That situation, as well as strains in NATO over the Ukraine crisis and uncertainty |
| 0:36.6 | about who will be calling the shots in the White House by the end of the year is a testing |
| 0:40.9 | prospect for European foreign ministers and for those vying for succession. |
| 0:47.0 | Nowhere more so than in Britain's Labour Party, under closer scrutiny as it looks likely to form the next UK government. |
| 0:55.0 | But would a new Foreign Secretary in London encounter as Secretary Blinken or a Donald Trump appointee. Welcome to Power Play from Politico, where we talk to some of the world's most influential |
| 1:09.9 | people on both sides of the Atlantic. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm Anne McElvoy and my guest this week has his eye on the job with the grandest address |
| 1:18.1 | in Whitehall, King Charles Street, Labour's David Lammy. |
| 1:22.2 | For someone with impeccable connections to senior Democrats in the US, |
| 1:26.0 | he joined a dinner date with Barack Obama in London just this week. |
| 1:29.0 | How would a centre-left government in the UKS. special relationship differ from a decade of |
| 1:35.4 | conservative foreign policy. |
| 1:37.0 | David Lamy, welcome to power play. |
| 1:39.6 | Great to be here. |
| 1:40.3 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:41.8 | If the polls are correct, you could well be Britain's next foreign secretary. |
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