Commenting on the diversity of the new cabinet, Mr Lammy told Times Radio: “I think we are a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural country. I remember when we won the Olympics and hosted the Olympics in 2012, that was the vision we presented to the world. “This story really started under Tony Blair with the appointment of people like Paul Boateng, Valerie Amos, Patricia Scotland who is now Commonwealth Secretary General, Valerie Amos, who runs an Oxford College. “And I am very, very happy to see these very high government offices in the hands of people I disagree with, of course I disagree with Kwasi Kwarteng and James Cleverly, but I texted them yesterday to congratulate them. Great achievement.”
