David Lammy
speaker
103 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jun
David Lammy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've disagreed before on his perspective on Western civilization.
I don't recognize that perspective.
And actually, Western civilization has always been open to the world, whether it was the Byzantine world, the...
The Levant world, the Silk Road has always influenced Western civilization.
So I don't agree with his caricature.
He knows that.
And we can have that debate and that discussion.
I reminded him that the family have called for calm.
They don't want division used on the back of Henry's death.
And two, I reminded him also of the online space and how toxic that can become.
So we had a robust conversation, a respectful conversation.
We remain colleagues and friends.
We're able to do that.
And he has strong held views.
A lot of your listeners will think that the status of common law marriage actually exists.
And that means that if you've been living together as a couple for several years, that if your partner dies or if you split up, you broadly have the same right as a married couple.
And it's a myth.
The truth is, at the moment, in terms of inheritance, in terms of savings, in terms of financial assets, you don't have the same rights.
And so it is important, I think, that we finally move to a situation given that 3.5 million couples now...
are basically cohabiting and that more children are born to cohabiting couples, 51% than children born to married couples.
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