London, June 7 (EFE).- The British Government called the American Vice President, JD Vance, to refute his thesis on “mass immigration” in the United Kingdom as the reason for the riots caused this week after the murder of a young white Englishman at the hands of another young Englishman of Sikh origin.
British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy told Sky News this Sunday that he personally called JD Vance yesterday Saturday to convey this message: “This has nothing to do with mass immigration, let’s be clear. This young man (the accused, already convicted) was a British man. And I told him: “Look, Mr. Vice President, you are wrong here.”
Lammy said that the conversation had taken place “in a pleasant tone” which had not prevented him from making clear his “disagreements”, such as, for example, that the crime rate in the United Kingdom is falling and there is no increase in insecurity, or that British democracy works and the author has already been tried and convicted.
JD Vance wrote on his social networks last Friday that the murdered young man would still be alive “if Europe stood up” against “mass immigration and policies of self-hatred.”
Already on Friday, a spokesperson for the prime minister reacted to Vance’s words, alluding to attempts to “interfere” in British politics.
“In recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to create division in our streets,” said the spokesperson, in words unanimously interpreted as a response to Vance, although he did not quote him.
JD Vance, like President Donald Trump or technology magnate Elon Musk, repeatedly criticize the United Kingdom’s immigration policies, an issue that is already at the center of the political debate in the country and has become one of the lines that most polarizes society. EFE
