‘Anti-British!’ Lammy aide slammed after questioning whether Britons will mourn death of Prince William
A top aide to Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been accused of being “anti-British” after questioning whether Britons would mourn the death of Prince William.
Labour adviser Ben Judah – who has been described as “Lammy’s brain” – faces the damning accusations over his comments in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Judah had written: “There have been tears for the Queen this week, but can we imagine the same for Prince William decades from now?
“Looking at him, I can’t shake the feeling that he is just a west Londoner.”
Also in 2022, Judah had made disparaging remarks about the Commonwealth in a column – the same bloc with which both Lammy and Sir Keir Starmer have flown around the world to hold talks this week.
He wrote: “We pretended with her [the Queen] and for her that the Commonwealth was real, that there was love and affection for her, or for us, in countries we’d conquered and lost, that we were still a great power.
“And if not an empire, then she ruled its heir. As she aged, shrinking into her clothes, it became clear there wasn’t enough there, behind the insignia of government, to hold us up in the world.”
While he also said of King Charles: “The King is not a stupid man. ‘Big Ears’ of the tabloid press has spent his life knowing there is nothing sacred about him.”
