This is who Keir Starmer is 👇

My two events yesterday showed The Labour Party as a team working together.

First, with Rachel Reeves on how we will deliver growth.

Second, with John Healey MP on how we will keep Britain safe.

Our foreign policy will reconnect Britain for our prosperity and security at home.

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Last week John Healey MP and I visited Kyiv with a simple message:

There may be a change of government this year, but there will be no change in the UK's military, diplomatic, political or financial support to Ukraine.

The Labour Party will stand with Ukraine until it wins.

In conversation with Mark Urban, Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy delved into the main security and defence challenges in the UK and worldwide.

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Follow the livestream of our event with Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy here👇
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Today, David Lammy and I met with members of the Hostage Families Forum.

Labour demands the immediate release of all hostages.

We continue our call for an immediate ceasefire to end the war in Gaza, a surge of aid into Gaza to alleviate the humanitarian crisis, and a pathway

A series of phenomenal counter-kleptocracy proposals from David Lammy, especially on targeting the Western enablers of kleptocrats around the world: ft.com/content/826c83…

UK Shadow FS David Lammy outlines plan to tackle dirty 💷.

He will 'advocate for the creation of an international anti-corruption court to prosecute the most serious crimes, if Labour wins the general election expected later this year.'

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.Keir Starmer and I were moved earlier to meet with family members of hostages still held by Hamas terrorists. The pain they are facing 227 days later is unimaginable.

Hamas must release all the hostages now. We need an immediate ceasefire from all sides.

This is so welcome. The lack of fundamental progress made on cracking down on illicit finance, money laundering and kleptocracy is a national scandal. For example, HMG reporting showed just *one* Unexplained Wealth Order was applied in 2022-23. Insane.
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This morning Margaret Hodge and I led a tour of some of the luxury properties in Kensington owned by notorious autocrats and oligarchs but hidden behind trusts and shell companies, ahead of David Lammy speech on corruption at IPPR today.

A hugely welcome package of reforms to tackle dirty money from David Lammy - including the use of opaque trusts to launder money, the role of enablers and international cooperation between financial centres. In Kensington this will have a big impact. ft.com/content/826c83…

Lammy will set out plans for Britain to spearhead a intl initiative to tackle financial crime, starting with UK-hosted summit to drive issue up global agenda

He'll propose a new intl anti-corruption court to prosecute the most serious crimes worldwide

Excl: Labour is planning a major crackdown on dirty money, with proposals to punish white-collar enablers of kleptocracy

David Lammy is today unveiling blueprint, which includes rewards of up to £250,000 to whistleblowers who identify sanctions breaches

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There's still time to register for our kleptocracy conference tomorrow! Speakers include:

👉 David Lammy
👉 Margaret Hodge
👉 John Penrose
👉 Nigel Mills MP

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David Lammy set out his vision for the Foreign Office at a speech at the IfG on Friday.

It is nothing if not ambitious, and leaves many of the difficult choices still to come, writes Tim Durrant

Read the comment and listen back to the event here:
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David Lammy says his family links to slavery will inform political approach theguardian.com/politics/artic…