UK deputy prime minister David Lammy says he called US Vice-President JD Vance to tell him he was "wrong" for linking the murder of British teenager Henry Nowak by Sikh man Vickrum Digwa to "mass migration", saying the case had "nothing to do" with immigration.
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Speaking to British broadcasters on Sunday, Lammy said he held an "agreeable but robust" conversation with Vance after the US vice-president suggested that Nowak's killing reflected the consequences of what he called the "mass invasion of migrants" into Western countries.
According to Sky News, Lammy said he told Vance: “Look, Mr Vice President, you're wrong about this,” stressing that the case had “nothing to do with mass migration.”
The intervention came after Vance posted on X that 18-year-old Nowak's death symbolised a broader civilisational decline, arguing that European leaders had failed to stand up against mass migration and "the politics of self-hatred."
