David Lammy: ‘Britain has to start reconnecting with a dangerous, divided world’

New foreign secretary says resetting UK relations with EU is a particular priority as he travels to Germany, Poland and Sweden, then the US

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Britain must reconnect with the rest of the world with major resets in climate change policy, and in the country's relationships with Europe and with the global south, foreign secretary David Lammy has said in an interview with the Guardian before his first international trip.

Lammy has taken up his position, one of the four great offices of state, at a time of immense foreign policy challenges, from two major wars to global inertia about tackling a warming planet.