“Reckless record”: ActionAid UK on David Lammy’s Foreign Secretary exit

Hannah Bond, Co-CEO at ActionAid UK, said: “When David Lammy took office, he pledged to ‘reset’ the UK’s relationship with the Global South. Instead, he leaves behind a reckless record of enabling arms sales to an Israeli regime starving Gaza while reducing the UK’s aid budget to its lowest level since 1991.

“The new Foreign Secretary must break with this government’s disastrous course. That means imposing a total arms embargo on Israel, reversing the ODA cuts that will shut down health services and safe spaces for women and girls as crises intensify, and finally delivering on climate finance at COP30.”