MP David Lammy speaking to the Heritage Lottery Foundation.

David Lindon Lammy (born 19 July 1972) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Tottenham, one of two constituencies within the London Borough of Haringey.

Lammy was born in Tottenham, a working-class area of North London, and brought up by his mother after his father left the family. He won an Inner London Education Authority choral scholarship to The King's School, Peterborough. Lammy studied Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London; he then took a Masters degree at Harvard Law School (the first black Briton to do so) and is a member of Lincoln's Inn having been Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1994.