JD Vance, unveiled last night as Donald Trump’s pick for vice-president, has claimed that Britain is ‘the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon’. Vance made the comments at a National Conservatism Conference in Washington on Thursday. This is what he had to say: ‘I was talking with a friend recently. And we were talking about one of the big dangers in the world, of course, is nuclear proliferation…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.’
It is not hard to imagine what Rayner would have said about such comments if Labour were still in opposition
It has been suggested that the remarks were made jokingly and not meant as a prediction.
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