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Jitendra Joshi

David Lammy stresses ‘common ground’ with JD Vance of addiction and poverty

Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Thursday played down comments by Republican vice presidential pick JD Vance about “Islamist” nuclear Britain, and stressed their “common ground” coming from troubled backgrounds.

Mr Lammy again vowed to work with whoever is elected by US voters in November after he previously called Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” and a “tyrant in a toupee”, when the then president visited Britain in 2018.

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