British politicians condemn Republican Vice President Pick JD Vance for comments about ‘Islamist country’

Speaking at the conference, he said: “I was talking to a friend recently and we were talking about it [how] One of the great dangers in the world is of course nuclear proliferation, even though the Biden administration is not interested in that.”

“And I was talking about what’s going to be the first truly Muslim country that’s going to get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, maybe Pakistan is already counting, and then we finally decided maybe it would be Britain , since Labor has just taken over.”

British politicians were quick to condemn Vance. In the Independentwrote former Tory co-chair Sayeeda Warsi that Britain and the US have a special relationship and that “what Donald Trump’s appointment of JD Vance as his running mate for vice president has done is endangering that special relationship.”

She continued: “The fact that Vance can so easily miscategorize Britain in this way and make such flippant comments in public, delivered so casually – his shocking line elicited a laugh from his audience – tells me that this potential incoming vice president, the special relationship has become nothing more than a racist joke. It portends really dangerous times.”