Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s speech to LFI’s 2023 Annual Lunch

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Thank yous 

 

Thank you,  

 

Chief Rabbi, Ambassador, friends… some of you old friends.  

 

Sir David Garrard for the wonderful introduction. 

Isaac Kaye. 

Adrian Cohen. 

Steve McCabe for your advice and support. 

 

Tom Murray, Thomas Webster,

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