david lammy, welcome to political thinking. thank you, nice to be back.n you were last on this programme, you talked to me about how pleased you were to be on the backbenches. i'm very satisfied, you said. i feel free, i feel liberated. i mean, at the time, you were making those passionate speeches that you did on grenfell, on windrush and all the rest of it, does that now mean you feel sort of cage? not quite. i loved being on the backbenches, you know, i really did. i loved being in government, to the extent that you actually did something. i suppose i am now in the third act. i don't know how many acts there are going to be. but what would i say this time? i have been in parliament 22 years, i'm 50 in a couple of weeks�* time... so i suppose i've got to come to terms with the sort of seniority in parliament, and, you know, parliament is generous if you have been there a long time, this is notjust your own party, it is the opposition as well. parliament quite likes specialisms and i've, you know, there are some issues that i feel i have returned to cons

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david lammy, thank you very much forjoining _ gone. you very much forjoining us live _ gone. david lammy, thank you very much forjoining us live on - gone. david lammy, thank you very much forjoining us live on bbc - much forjoining us live on bbc news. you arejoining us here as we can disown you our coverage of boris johnson announcing he will step down as leader of the conservative party. there is ongoing coverage on the bbc live page, full of information. as i was arriving to get ready for this broadcast an hour or so ago, just as i was approaching the gates of downing street, heading in the other direction was nigel faraj. former leader of the uk independence party and — along with borisjohnson — one of the main proponents of brexit. he was here in his capacity of contributing to gb news and he was a key proponent of brexit, not always aligned with borisjohnson but they both wanted brexit and this is what i asked him when he came out of the gate. inevitable. it had to happen. confidence had collapsed. notjust in westminster but act