David Lammy, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, has stirred controversy by stating that the Conservative Party is the wrong 'class' to run Britain. In an interview with the New Statesman, Lammy criticized the Conservatives for having a 'public-school smallness' and argued that they are not the type of people Britain needs to govern effectively. He contrasted this with Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner, whom he described as someone who 'gets it.' Lammy emphasized the need for Britain to adapt to the world as it is, rather than as liberals wish it to be. Conservative commentator Charlie Rowley reacted by calling Lammy's statement 'ridiculous.'
"It is a ridiculous thing to say." Conservative commentator @CharlieRowley18 reacts to Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy's claim that the Tories are the 'wrong class' to run Britain. https://t.co/s9PvrdyXWd
🔴 David Lammy has claimed the Tories are not the right “class of people” to be running Britain because of their “public-school smallness” Lammy said that Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, was by contrast someone who “gets it” Read more 👇 https://t.co/ruAPnStSkv https://t.co/sngUA5Eb63
The Conservatives are the wrong “class” to run Britain and have a “public-school smallness” about them, the shadow foreign secretary has said ⬇️ https://t.co/qMdMUlWfPV
“It’s important to me in politics to represent the experience of life." “That doesn’t mean that if you’re posh…that you’re not fit to hold a political office!” @JPonPolitics presses @Alison_McGovern after David Lammy said the Tories are the “wrong class” to run Britain. https://t.co/97A211wcjC
Labour’s foreign-secretary-in-waiting on why Britain must adapt to the world as it is, not as liberals wish it to be. David Lammy speaks to the @NewStatesman: https://t.co/15402FkyuJ
David Lammy tells the NS on the Tories: “They are not the class of people that Britain needs to run it now”. https://t.co/I9HAmhRPuP https://t.co/jP9kjaoxqK
“They [the Conservatives] are not the class of people that Britain needs to run it now." David Lammy to the @NewStatesman: https://t.co/JEQ4e7WtBe
NEW STATESMAN: The Lammy Doctrine. #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/IG5lXEyCWO