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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Jamie Grierson

Starmer suggests US ‘trying to interfere in our democracy’ over Nowak claims

Two side-by-side portraits: Keir Starmer and JD Vance in dark suits and blue ties at formal settings
Starmer’s office called for unity as Vance blamed ‘the mass invasion of migrants’ for Nowak’s murder. Composite: Zuma Press/Shutterstock/AFP/Getty Images

​Keir Starmer has suggested the US is trying to interfere in British democracy after JD Vance, the US vice-president, blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration.

The prime minister’s office responded after the senior Republican politician claimed in a post on X that Nowak would be alive “if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it”.

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