Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Writing in The Guardian today David Lammy MP lays down a challenge to Cameron’s Conservatives: “The Tories’ economic policy, or lack thereof, is not their only problem. Cameron’s core proposition is that society is broken but that government – any government – cannot fix it. As with economic policy this leads to discursive speeches which take [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
David Lammy: Anyone know what the Tories think about the financial crisis? They've kept quiet because their solution is to trust the markets
Hunter and Shooter (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Iain Dale is reporting how Dawn Butler, the over-promoted Labour MP for Brent South, is endorsing Barak Obama. She is now a government whip. There has been a long-standing traditional that our government of the day remains neutral in foreign elections. David Lammy, Hunter's own MP, has also shamelessly endorsed Obama. Would they be doing so if Obama was white? Hunter believes that the best man - or...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
To the Marriott Highcliff Hotel for CentreForum and the Fabian Society’s lunchtime fringe: Labour and the Lib Dems: Allies or enemies? Squeezing myself between John Piennar and Rita Chakrabarti, it was standing room only as I watched Stephen Williams, David Lammy, Vince Cable and Charles Clarke argue their respective points. Nabbing the free orange juice (it’s [...]
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
I'm at a fringe meeting at the LibDem conference organised by the Fabian Society and chaired by Michael White. It's all about the future of the so-called progressive left. Charles Clarke and David Lammy are speaking, but the reason for this post is that Vince Cable has just issued a clarion call for the LibDems and Labour to think about merging after a heavy defeat for Labour at the next election....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Hélène Mulholland: Schools minister David Lammy learned something about the value of money last night
NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
"Old Labour was hostile to the market; New Labour has arguably been too deferential to it. The modern, progressive position has the confidence to assert the social over the economic. It argues that there is more to decision making than competition law: that the market needs to be shaped around the needs of society, not vice versa. This need to govern the market in the interests of society is something...
Tim McLoughlin (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Writing in the latest Progress magazine, David Lammy admits the obvious, that the Tories' language under Cameron has wooed the public. There is nothing startling about that to anyone who has lived in the UK for the last year. There is if you are The Daily Mail. The Mail has triumphantly dubbed Lammy's article " Labour minister publicly admits David Cameron has 'touched a nerve " like it is a revelation...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
David Cameron has “touched a nerve” with the British people as the Tories exploit a “big gap” in Labour’s performance after 11 years in power, a government minister has warned. In a candid assessment of Labour’s prospects, as Gordon Brown prepares to return to the political fray next week, skills minister David Lammy calls on the [...]
English Blog (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
The youth population in Britain is living with a different ideology, according to David Lammy, the skills minister. I read a report by the Guardian just a few minutes ago: Young men are shunning work and turning to a life of crime as Britain develops a “get rich or die trying” culture, the country’s most [...]
TMP (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Skills Minister, MP for Tottenham and Britain’s most senior elected ethnic minority politician, David Lammy, has written an article for the New Statesman in which he argues we are failing miserably to provide Britain’s teenage boys with meaningful occupations, worthy role models or hope for the future. Lammy, pictured above last month with US Democratic Presidential nominee, Sen. [...]
A Very British Dude (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
David Lammy, a universities minister is saying that “An entire generation of young men, including those from middle-class families is growing up shunning work and seeing crime as a shortcut to wealth and success”. So while the sons and daughters of Thatcher work all hours God sends, the jack layabouts bred by Zanu-Labour get sucked into crime. Not the only reason I know, but the cloying hand of the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
A lack of male role models and glorification of "bling culture" has caused a crisis among boys in Britain, according to a government minister.
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
We are failing miserably to provide Britain's teenage boys with meaningful occupations, worthy role models or hope for the future. David Lammy, minister for skills, on the crisis we must resolve I had not wept in an advice surgery until a few weeks ago, when a distraught mother and father came to see me after learning that their teenage daughter had been subjected to the most brutal assault I have...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Skills minister David Lammy, most senior black MP, says Britain is developing a 'get rich or die trying' culture
