David Lammy was appointed Secretary of State for Justice, Lord Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister on the 5th September 2025.
He was previously Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs between 5 July 2024 and 5 September 2025. David was first elected as Labour MP for Tottenham at the age of 27 in June 2000.
As the Secretary of State for Justice, The Rt Hon David Lammy MP, heads the Ministry of Justice.
David studied law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Law School and Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1994.
The Rt Hon David Lammy MP – Legal Experience
You may also be interested in our article on the Lord Chancellor, Lady Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls and the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 which explains the transfer of some powers from the Lord Chancellor to the Lord Chief Justice.
What is the role of the Secretary of State for Justice ?
According to the gov.uk webpage for the Secretary of State for Justice, it lists the ministerial roles as follows :-
Responsibilities
- Oversight of all portfolios and Ministry of Justice strategy
- Oversight of departmental COVID-19 response supported by other ministers according to portfolio
- Oversight of international business and future relations with the EU
- MoJ support for the Union
- Resourcing of the department
- Functions of the Lord Chancellor
- Judicial policy including pay, pensions and diversity (these and other operational decisions affecting the judiciary are reserved to the Lord Chancellor)
- Corporate services
Previous Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
- The Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP 2024 to 2025
- The Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC 2023 to 2024
- The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP 2022 to 2023
- The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE MP 2022 to 2022
- The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP 2021 to 2022
- The Rt Hon Robert Buckland KC MP 2019 to 2021
- The Rt Hon David Gauke 2018 to 2019
- The Rt Hon David Lidington CBE 2017 to 2018
- The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP 2016 to 2017
- The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP 2015 to 2016
- The Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP 2012 to 2015
- The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke KC 2010 to 2012
David Lammy the Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, has made several critical statements about US President Donald Trump in the past, particularly when he was a backbench MP.
In 2018, Lammy wrote in a TIME magazine article that Trump was a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” and a “profound threat to the international order.” He also called Trump a “tyrant in a toupee” and vowed to protest against the UK government’s “capitulation” to Trump during his visit to the UK.
In 2017, Lammy tweeted that Trump was a “racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser” and pledged to protest on the streets if Trump visited the UK.
In 2019, responding to Trump’s claim that he had been treated badly as president, Lammy tweeted, “4 US Presidents have been assassinated snowflake,” a comment criticized for its tone.
The Rt Hon David Lammy MP on US President Donald Trump
Photo Credit : David Lammy
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