David Lammy, the U.K.’s top diplomat in the government of the Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, must navigate Brexit fallout, the new Trump Administration, and conflicts involving Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and the U.N. Sam Knight reports.
The Security Council meeting was about the war in Ukraine. A large mural in the chamber, by the Norwegian artist Per Krohg, loomed over Lammy’s right shoulder. At the base, a dragon was removing a sword from its own body. “The world we see in the foreground is collapsing,” Krohg explained seventy-five years ago.
Shortly before taking office, Liz Truss declined to say whether President Emmanuel Macron of France was “a friend or foe.” During his premiership, Rishi Sunak threatened to remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights in order to implement his policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda—mainly refugees who had crossed the English Channel in inflatable boats.
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