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Nicholas Cecil

Minister rejects claim by Trump running mate JD Vance that Britain is first nuclear Islamist country

A minister hailed the “enormous strength” of diversity as he rejected a claim by Donald Trump’s running mate that Britain is now the first nuclear “Islamist” country.

Treasury minister James Murray was responding to JD Vance telling a National Conservatism event about a discussion he had with a friend in which he pondered: “What is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon?

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