Newsuk newsuk politicsdavid lammy

Labour MP David Lammy Mistaken For Sierra Leone Politician By Local Newspaper In Electorate He's Won Three Times

Local Paper Is Pretty Embarrassed It Mistook Sierra Leone's Julius Maada For David Lammy
Steven Hopkins

He's won the Tottenham seat for three consecutive terms, but that doesn't mean Labour MP David Lammy is well known to his local newspaper.

Lammy, who won 28,654 votes to secure the seat over Conservative candidate Stefani Mrozinski in the General Election - the biggest majority for a Tottenham MP in 25 years - was seemingly mistaken Monday for a politician located some 3,000 miles away.

The Tottenham & Wood Green Independent used a picture of Sierra Leone politician Julius Maada Bio to illustrate a story about how Lammy was considering contesting the Labour leadership.

Open Image Modal

The Tottenham & Wood Green Independent story where a picture of a Sierra Leone's Julius Maada Bio was used to illustrate a story about Labour MP David Lammy

The paper replaced the picture when the story was updated to say Lammy wasn't going to stand, but not before the photo mix-up made its way across social media in a flutter of clicks and chuckles.

While confirming he wouldn't stand for Labour leader after Ed Miliband resigned, Lammy did say on Monday that he intended to run as the party's mayoral candidate.

Open Image Modal

Lammy won the Tottenham seat by the biggest majority in 25 years, securing the seat for his third time

Over the weekend Lammy had said that he would "have a go" if his party asked him to stand as leader.

Julius Maada Bio was the military head of state in Sierra Leone for three months in 1996 under the National Provisional Ruling Party, and is now an active member of the Sierra Leone People's Party.

SEE ALSO

David Lammy Explains Why All Parties Finally Need To 'Get Serious' On Housing

David Lammy Reckons London's Overcrowded Rented Housing Is Making Children Fail Exams

We Are Witnessing a Crisis of Wellbeing at Work

David Lammy and Julius Maada Bio
David Lammy Criminal Justice Speech(01 of17)
Open Image Modal
David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham in north London speaks at the Policy Exchange in Westminster today about criminal justice. (credit:Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
Sierra Leone Election(02 of17)
Open Image Modal
Opposition presidential candidate Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party looks on as an adviser displays an allegedly pre-marked ballot paper, during a presentation of purported evidence of vote tampering to a team of Commonwealth election observers, at SLPP party headquarters in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. Sierra Leoneans were still awaiting election results Tuesday, three days after the nation carried out a largely peaceful and well-conducted vote. The vote was the third presidential election since the end of the West African country's brutal 11-year civil war that ended in 2002, and experts had said it would be a key test of how far the nation has come.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
'Make Your Mark In The Music Industry' Press Conference(03 of17)
Open Image Modal
LONDON - FEBRUARY 04: MP David Lammy hosts the 'Make Your Mark in the Music Industry' press conference at Portcullis House on February 4, 2008 in London, England. The 'Make Your Mark In The Music Industry' campaign looks at ways of assisting and encouraging young people's endeavours in the music industry. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) (credit:Chris Jackson via Getty Images)
SLEONE-VOTE-OPPOSITION(04 of17)
Open Image Modal
Ex-military leader Julius Maada Bio (C) from the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) waves to supporters at the National stadium on November 15, 2012 in Freetown, ahead of the general elections in Sierra Leone on November 17, 2012. Hundreds of opposition supporters gathered in Freetown for a final rally as the country wraps up a campaign for this weekend's elections which is seen as a key test of its post-war recovery. Bio is the main adversary to President Ernest Koroma who is seeking a second term in office after his All People's Congress (APC) ousted the SLPP at the polls in 2007. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ISSOUF SANOGO via Getty Images)
'Make Your Mark In The Music Industry' Press Conference(05 of17)
Open Image Modal
LONDON - FEBRUARY 04: MP David Lammy hosts the 'Make Your Mark in the Music Industry' press conference at Portcullis House on February 4, 2008 in London, England. The 'Make Your Mark In The Music Industry' campaign looks at ways of assisting and encouraging young people's endeavours in the music industry. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) (credit:Chris Jackson via Getty Images)
SLEONE-VOTE-OPPOSITION(06 of17)
Open Image Modal
Ex-military leader Julius Maada Bio (C) from the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) waves to supporters at the National stadium on November 15, 2012 in Freetown, ahead of the general elections in Sierra Leone on November 17, 2012. Hundreds of opposition supporters gathered in Freetown for a final rally as the country wraps up a campaign for this weekend's elections which is seen as a key test of its post-war recovery. Bio is the main adversary to President Ernest Koroma who is seeking a second term in office after his All People's Congress (APC) ousted the SLPP at the polls in 2007. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ISSOUF SANOGO via Getty Images)
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg(07 of17)
Open Image Modal
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg (Front C) and Tottenham MP David Lammy (Front L) meet local residents and business people August 8, 2011, including jeweller Steve Moore (R) who suffered damage to his shop during riots in north London on Saturday night. Police said Monday they had arrested 100 people in a second night of rioting in London, condemning it as 'copycat' disorder following weekend unrest sparked by the death of a man in a police shooting. As violence which rocked the multi-ethnic northern district of Tottenham on Saturday spread to other districts of the capital, doubts emerged over the original version the shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, with suggestions that officers were not under attack when they opened fire. AFP PHOTO / STEFAN ROUSSEAU/POOL (Photo credit should read STEFAN ROUSSEAU/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:STEFAN ROUSSEAU via Getty Images)
Sierra Leone Elections(08 of17)
Open Image Modal
Julius Maada Bio of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party casts his ballot for president, at an outdoor polling station in the Wilberforce neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery. (AP Photo/Tommy Trenchard) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Screen Nation Film And Television Awards 2007 - London(09 of17)
Open Image Modal
David Lammy Attends The Screen Nation Film And Television Awards 2007 In London.. (Photo by Antony Jones/UK Press via Getty Images) (credit:Antony Jones via Getty Images)
Sierra Leone Election(10 of17)
Open Image Modal
Opposition candidate Julius Maada Bio waves to supporters as his campaign convoy drives through the Kissy neighborhood, en route to his final campaign rally in Freetown, Sierra Leone Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Ten years after the end of a devastating civil war, Sierra Leone will go to the polls on Saturday to choose between candidates including Bio and incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Janet Street Porter Unveils the Gordon's Gin "Judge for Yourself" Tour(11 of17)
Open Image Modal
David Lammy MP during Janet Street Porter Unveils the Gordon's Gin 'Judge for Yourself' Tour at Victoria Train Station in London, Great Britain. (Photo by David Lodge/FilmMagic) (credit:David Lodge via Getty Images)
Sierra Leone Elections(12 of17)
Open Image Modal
Opposition presidential candidate Julius Maada Bio casts a ballot in local elections, after voting for president at an outdoor polling station in the Wilberforce neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery. (AP Photo/Tommy Trenchard) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Amazing Grace - UK Premiere(13 of17)
Open Image Modal
LONDON - MARCH 19: David Lammy MP arrives at the UK film premiere of Amazing Grace held at Curzon Mayfair March 19, 2007 in London, England. (Photo by MJ Kim/Getty Images) (credit:MJ Kim via Getty Images)
Sierra Leone Election(14 of17)
Open Image Modal
Opposition presidential candidate Julius Maada Bio, left, of the Sierra Leone People's Party listens as his running mate Kadi Sesay, right, speaks during a presentation of alleged evidence of election tampering to a team of Commonwealth election observers, at SLPP party headquarters in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. Sierra Leoneans were still awaiting election results Tuesday, three days after the nation carried out a largely peaceful and well-conducted vote. The vote was the third presidential election since the end of the West African country's brutal 11-year civil war that ended in 2002, and experts had said it would be a key test of how far the nation has come.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg(15 of17)
Open Image Modal
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg (2nd R) and Tottenham MP David Lammy (L) meet local residents and business people August 8, 2011, in Tottenham after rioting broke out in north London on Saturday night. Police said Monday they had arrested 100 people in a second night of rioting in London, condemning it as 'copycat' disorder following weekend unrest sparked by the death of a man in a police shooting. As violence which rocked the multi-ethnic northern district of Tottenham on Saturday spread to other districts of the capital, doubts emerged over the original version the shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, with suggestions that officers were not under attack when they opened fire. AFP PHOTO / STEFAN ROUSSEAU/POOL (Photo credit should read STEFAN ROUSSEAU/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:STEFAN ROUSSEAU via Getty Images)
Sierra Leone Election(16 of17)
Open Image Modal
Opposition presidential candidate Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party looks on during an SLPP presentation of alleged evidence of election tampering to a team of Commonwealth election observers, at SLPP party headquarters in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. Sierra Leoneans were still awaiting election results Tuesday, three days after the nation carried out a largely peaceful and well-conducted vote. The vote was the third presidential election since the end of the West African country's brutal 11-year civil war that ended in 2002, and experts had said it would be a key test of how far the nation has come.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Oxford Literary Festival - Day 1(17 of17)
Open Image Modal
OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 24: David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, poses for a portrait at the Oxford Literary Festival on March 24, 2012 in Oxford, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images) (credit:David Levenson via Getty Images)
Suggest a correction
|
Submit a tip