Angela Rayner dismisses ‘Islamist’ Labour comment by new Trump running mate – politics live

Angela Rayner dismisses ‘Islamist’ Labour comment by new Trump running mate – politics live

JD Vance said the UK was the first ‘Islamist country’ to get a nuclear weapon after Labour won power

Sunder Katwala, who used to run a Labour thinktank and who is now director of British Future, a thinktank focusing on race and identity issues, has welcomed the Tory response (see 8.58am) to the JD Vance comment. Katwala has also described what Vance said as “basic crass prejudice”.

A very sensible response from @AndrewBowie_MP for the Conservatives on why the JD Vance remarks to National Cons on an Islamist UK Labour government are wrong, “offensive” after a democratic election + reflect the coarsening of political discourse that many are warning against.

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