Members of parliament have written a letter to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, warning of the potentially catastrophic dangers from the 'ticking time-bomb' vessels.

Former First Minister Humza Yousaf has accused Foreign Secretary David Lammy of racism over his diplomatic meeting with an Israeli Minister during Gaza ceasefire negotiations. Yousaf claimed the different diplomatic approaches taken towards Israel compared to Russia's invasion of Ukraine revealed racist double standards in British foreign policy.

The UK on Friday urged Moscow to "release all political prisoners" after a Russian court jailed three lawyers who had defended late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

“Russia lost 45,000 troops, dead, in November alone.” On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme [2:18:20] on Thursday (9 January), foreign secretary David Lammy MP claimed that Russia had “lost 45,000 troops, dead, in November alone” in the war with Ukrain

In a keynote speech David Lammy warned Europe is 'on a knife edge' and said the post-Cold War era of peace is over as he agreed with Donald Trump over the need to spend big on defence

The series of rooms, which act "as a memorial to a supposed diplomatic triumph promising an era of international cooperation", were supposed to be the perfect backdrop for Labour to set out its vision for a more "progressive reality".

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

The Foreign Secretary has called on the incoming US president to say how he will pay for a massive increase in defence spending.

Humza Yousaf has accused David Lammy of racism for meeting with an Israeli ... The former first minister compared Israeli military action to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but claimed the Foreign ...

Foreign secretary also hit back at Trump’s demands that the UK double its defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP

The figure given by the foreign secretary actually appears to refer to an estimate shared by the Ministry of Defence for the number who were either killed or wounded.

Figures shared by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) earlier that week, attributed to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, estimate that in November 2024 Russian casualties totalled 45,680. But this figure includes both troops who were killed and those who were wounded – it does not refer solely to deaths.