Labour’s Deputy PM Angela Rayner told ITV: “Look, I don’t recognize that characterization, I’m very proud of the election success that Labour had recently. I think he said quite a lot of fruity things in the past as well.”
Speaking days before being adopted by Trump as his vice-presidential pick, Vance, a junior senator from Ohio, told the National Conservatism Conference: “I was talking with a friend recently and we were talking about [how] one of the big dangers in the world, of course, is nuclear proliferation, though the Biden administration doesn’t care about it.
“And I was talking about what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over,” Vance added.
Labour — which won July 4’s U.K. election in a landslide — dismissed Vance’s jibe.
Junior Treasury minister James Murray, told Times Radio he didn’t “really know what [Vance] meant by that.”
The jibe is troubling for new Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who has attempted to build bridges with Trump’s allies including Vance.
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