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Lammy and Healey to sign bilateral Aukus deal during trip to Australia

The ministers have both hailed the importance of the defence partnership.

Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2025

Labor MP says Australia should move to recognise Palestinian statehood – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Jul 24, 2025

Gaza is starving – how Israel’s allies can go beyond words and take meaningful action

In the past two months, more than 1,000 people seeking food have been killed, according to the UN Human Rights Office. While the figure has been disputed by Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation which was set up to distribute aid, 28 nations this week condemned the “horrifying” killing of…

The Conversation · Jul 24, 2025

UK Launches First Sanctions In New Strategy To Deter Migrant Crossings

The UK imposed sanctions Wednesday on more than two dozen people, groups and suppliers from the Balkans, the Middle East and China accused of helping migrants cross the Channel.

International Business Times · Jul 23, 2025

Daily Express front page piles pressure on UK Government to act on Gaza

Pressure is ramping up on the UK Government to take action over Israel’s starvation of Gaza following a harrowing front page by the right-wing…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 23, 2025

Sadiq Khan calls for UK to immediately recognise Palestinian state amid warnings of starving children in Gaza

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said ‘starvation is knocking on every door’

Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2025

Migrant smuggling crackdown: Ex-police translator, gang bosses and Chinese firm among first 25 sanctioned

The Foreign Office has named the first 25 targets of its sanctions aimed at key figures who assist illegal migration across the English Channel

Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2025

First sanctions targeting people-smuggling gangs take effect

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the move was a ‘landmark moment’ in the Government’s bid to tackle organised immigration crime.

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025

David Lammy’s condemnation of the atrocities in Gaza is an important breakthrough

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Faced with human suffering on a now-apocalyptic scale, the British foreign secretary is right to raise the prospect of international humanitarian law having been violated. But if Israel is ever to end its war and the famine, the US president must be persuaded to apply some…

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025

Starmer’s sanctions plan for people smugglers ‘far-fetched’, say experts

Measures to be announced on Wednesday but researchers say there is a ‘lack of high-quality evidence’ such schemes work

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2025