The Foreign Secretary made the remarks as he updated MPs about the new 100-year partnership deal between the UK and Ukraine.
Europe’s security “is on a knife-edge” and President-elect Donald Trump is right to say NATO member nations must increase military spending, Britain’s top diplomat said Thursday. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that “the post-Cold War peace is ...
David Lammy used to be an arch-critic of Donald Trump. Can he deal with the new Administration and reset the U.K.’s relationship with the E.U. at the same time?
NATO's current target for members' defense spending is 2 percent of their country's GDP. Trump has repeatedly called on the alliance to increase this amount.
When the foreign secretary delivered a speech declaring that ‘Trump is right’ about the need for Europe to raise defence spending, he cemented himself as one of the more impressive ministers in Labour’s troubled administration,
The Foreign Secretary has called on the incoming US president to say how he will pay for a massive increase in defence spending.
But in a sign of the delicate balance the UK is trying to strike with the incoming administration, the Foreign Secretary backed Mr Trump’s call for higher defence spending by European members of Nato. David Lammy addressed diplomats, officials and ...
No place for ‘old-style paternalism’, declares Foreign Secretary who also urges UK to find ‘common ground’ with President Trump
Sir Keir Starmer will visit Washington for talks with Donald Trump within weeks, the foreign secretary has suggested. Speaking ahead of Trump's inauguration as president on Monday, David Lammy said the "strength" of the UK-US relationship meant he was "very confident" the PM would secure an early meeting.
Foreign secretary also hit back at Trump’s demands that the UK double its defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP
LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Jan 9 refused to condemn President-elect ... Mr Lammy insisted that “it’s not going to happen”, noting that “no Nato allies have gone to war, since the birth of Nato”. But he was also careful ...
an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark. Britain spends 2.3% of GDP on defense and says it will increase it to 2.5%. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy delivers a speech on the ...