Before David Lammy was UK foreign secretary, he denounced Donald Trump as a KKK-adjacent Nazi sympathiser. He didn’t just criticise The Donald or his policies, he engaged in a years-long, fever-dreamed rage against a politician who simply doesn’t exist. Since Trump’s re-election, Lammy has humiliatingly been forced to eat his words. But why did he – and so many other top politicians – turn into such a jabbering wreck in the first place? Here, Fraser Myers looks back on Lammy’s career and finds a once-thoughtful politician whose brain was broken by populism. Sadly, there are many such cases. Watch, share and make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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