David Lammy: I told JD Vance he was wrong about Henry Nowak murder

David Lammy told Laura Kuenssberg he reminded Vance ‘that the family have called for calm, they don’t want division’. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA

David Lammy has said he told the US vice-president, JD Vance, he was wrong to blame the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration.

The deputy prime minister said he spoke to Vance by phone on Saturday to tell him “our democratic process is working well” and that he was wrong in his commentary about the murder.