Updated 01.20 | Published 01.09
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fullscreen British Foreign Secretary David Lammy. Archive image. Photo: Thomas Krych/AP/TT
Britain’s newly appointed Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that “it is time to restore relations with our European friends and allies”.
“That is why I am in Germany, on my first visit as foreign minister”, writes Lammy on X in connection with a meeting with German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock.
“We are working with the new British government to see how Britain can get closer to the EU,” writes the German Foreign Ministry in a statement after the meeting.
The ministers discussed support for Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit in the US next week, the situation in the Middle East and work on climate change, according to the statement.
David Lammy, who previously held ministerial posts in both Tony Blair’s and Gordon Brown’s governments, replaced conservative David Cameron as foreign secretary after Labour’s landslide victory in the UK general election on Friday.
The UK’s withdrawal from the EU was completed in 2020.