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"I use to look forward to spending the summer holidays at your house because that meant being Beyoncé & performing at the Notting hill carnival. It surrenders our voting rights on the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament for nothing in return. I cannot vote for any form of Brexit because every form of Brexit is worse for my constituents.Brexit is a historic mistake. How do we honour those lives? I remind the Government of what Neville Lawrence said in 2012, almost 20 years after the loss of his son Stephen:“The loss itself, together with the lack of justice, have meant that I have not been able to rest all this time.”That point must hang in the air. If you fully intend to comply with the assurances you have made to Commonwealth citizens we believe that you will take no issue with meeting our simple and reasonable request.On 11th May I wrote to the Home Secretary, demanded that all submissions to the Windrush compensation scheme consultation should be treated as anonymous and not passed to immigration enforcement. As John of Gaunt says in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”:“That England, that was wont to conquer others hath made a shameful conquest of itself”I have written many articles calling for Labour to back a second referendum over recent months. On the 21st January 2019, I asked the following question in a Westminster Hall debate on College Funding:Does my hon. The people must be given a say over whether the UK leaves the EU. LABOUR MP David Lammy and his artist wife Nicola Green have become parents for the third time after deciding to adopt a baby girl. It forgets that we cannot build a new empire by force. Green has twice been among the exhibitors for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and in 2008. • David Lammy was talking to Hilary Whitney. If we do not get justice, we will get injustice—more injustice.Representation, which is at the heart of this debate, matters. It is for the people who died in the Grenfell fire. All Rights Reserved. We got the senseless and avoidable death of people who burned to death in their homes.The voices of Grenfell Tower have not been heard yet. Then look at the Cabinet—not just this Cabinet, but Cabinets under the Government that I was part of. Theresa May talks about burning injustices, and this injustice burned. I am one of many in Parliament who will scrutinise the Government’s performance and the results of the new regional adoption agencies.In the meantime, it is vital that everyday citizens who can volunteer to adopt make sure the gap is filled.Adopting a child is challenging but agencies can provide a range of training and support to adoptive families. Over their lifetimes, they will pay in £78,000 more than they take out.The contribution of European migrants has not been just financial. David Lindon Lammy, British Labour Party politician, was born in Tottenham in 19 July 1972, one of five children raised by a single mother. The best thing my wife and I ever did, along with having our two boys, was adopt our beautiful daughter. We get a council leader in a local authority in London—a city with 700 tower blocks of 11 floors or more—who had never even set foot in a tower block before she became leader. My heart breaks today. The Prime Minister’s deal has emerged as a Frankenstein’s monster—an ugly beast that no one voted for or wanted. This includes children from our diverse communities, in sibling groups of two or more, as well as those children with disabilities or special needs.Giving these children a new start will not only enrich their lives and your own, it contributes to making our society a better and more loving place.