Back to our hapless Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who has found himself embroiled in a new war of words. No, not with Sergey Lavrov or president Xi – this time, it’s with a French cab driver. Zut alors!
Sources close to the Foreign Office denied Lammy had been aggressive in any way
Lammy got into a dispute with Nasin Mumin after the taxi driver charged the Foreign Secretary and his wife Nicola Green an additional fee of €700 (£590) for a 360-mile trip from Forli in Italy, where the King made a state visit, to Flaine in France, where the couple were holidaying.
Mumin alleges the couple’s entourage had agreed to pay the extra money (on top of the €850 (£720) that had already been paid), because Lammy was a higher-risk client. He has branded Lammy a ‘liar’ and a ‘thief’ after the Foreign Secretary refused to cough up.
For his part, the Foreign Secretary has quite a different story.
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