New Labour government figures had made overtures to Donald Trump’s running mate — and have rejected his suggestion.
LONDON — Labour ministers have rejected a suggestion by Donald Trump ’s new running mate that the U.K. is an “ Islam ist country.”
It was a claim which came as a blow to Labour ministers, in office for less than a fortnight, who have been keen to curry favor both with Trump and Vance.Labour’s Deputy PM Angela Rayner told ITV: “Look, I don’t recognize that characterization, I’m very proud of the election success that Labour had recently. I think he said quite a lot of fruity things in the past as well.”
“And I was talking about what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over,” Vance added.Junior Treasury minister James Murray, told Times Radio he didn’t “really know what meant by that.”
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