David Lammy’s lamentable media round

If there’s something bad and you’re in a jam, who you gonna call? David Lammy! That’s right, the flailing Foreign Secretary has been out this morning doing his damnedest to defend the indefensible. The Talleyrand of Tottenham had something of a sticky wicket, following the Sunday Times revelations about gifts for Keir Starmer’s wife. And it seems poor old Lammy only made things worse in an interview with Trevor Phillips on Sky as he spun with all the skill of a man who once claimed Henry VII succeeded Henry VIII.

Phillips put it to Lammy that it ‘feels a bit odd’ for the Prime Minister to allow a wealthy peer to purchase his wife’s clothes. The Tottenham MP acknowledged this but suggested that Starmer had to accept the donation as the long-suffering taxpayer does not stump up for a clothing budget:

I recognise that but I also recognise that in our country there isn’t a budget for the Prime Minister’s clothes or his wife’s clothes.