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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Charlotte Edwardes and Rowena Mason

David Lammy and JD Vance bonded over ‘dysfunctional’ childhoods – and a Diet Coke

David Lammy, left, and JD Vance (right) sit in front of alternating US and UK flags on seats half facing each other with a small table inbetween.
David Lammy and JD Vance: ‘I had this great sense that JD completely relates to me.’ Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

David Lammy has spoken of his friendship with the US vice-president, JD Vance, as the pair can relate over their “dysfunctional” working-class childhoods.

In a series of interviews with the Guardian, conducted over several weeks, the foreign secretary opened up about a “wonderful hour and a half” spent with Vance over drinks at the US embassy in Italy in May alongside the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.

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