Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance introduced himself to US voters as a defender of “forgotten” workers, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy played up their shared troubled backgrounds.
Mr Lammy said he got on well with Mr Vance, despite the Ohio senator claiming that Labour-run Britain was now the first “Islamist” country with nuclear weapons, and vowed to work with whoever is elected by US voters in November after he previously called Donald Trump a “tyrant in a toupée”.
