London: Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister on Tuesday played down comments by US vice presidential contender JD Vance that Britain was an Islamist nuclear-armed country, saying he had a history of making “fruity” remarks. Britain would work with whoever won November’s US presidential election, Angela Rayner added.
At a conference earlier this month, Vance, who Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump named as his running mate on Monday, said that Britain was the “first truly Islamist country” to have nuclear weapons following the Labour Party’s victory in a July 4 election, to laughs in the audience.
