LONDON ā Labour ministers have rejected a suggestion by Donald Trumpās new running mate that the U.K. is an āIslamist country.ā
J.D. Vance, named Monday as the Republican vice presidential nominee, described Britain under the new Labour government as the worldās first ātruly Islamist countryā to have a nuclear weapon.
It was a claim which came as a blow to Labour ministers, in office for less than a fortnight, who have been keen to curry favor both with Trump and Vance.
Labourās Deputy PM Angela Rayner told ITV: āLook, I donāt recognize that characterization, Iām 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.ā
Speaking days before being adopted by Trump as his vice-presidential pick, Vance, a junior senator from Ohio, told the National Conservatism Conference: āI 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 doesnāt care about it.
Neither am I. My point, if I had one, was more about the fact he was being Xenophobic. Not like he isnāt part of the group trying to establish a Christian state here.
Yeah, this is an (unfounded) accusation that theyāre establishing a theocracy for the wrong religion.