David Lammy's foreign policy speech avoids the T-word

Labour wants to bring a progressive realism to its foreign policy but how would this withstand Donald Trump?

There has been no shortage of bleak predictions about the state of the world in recent weeks.

‘Our world is in an era of conflict and confrontation, of fragmentation and fear,’ EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the World Economic Forum in Davos.

‘For the first time in generations, the world is not at a single inflection point.

‘It is at m…