Lammy Rebukes Vance Over 18-Year-Old Henry Nowak Comments as UK-US Strains Deepen
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Updated · BBC.com · Jun 7
Lammy Rebukes Vance Over 18-Year-Old Henry Nowak Comments as UK-US Strains Deepen
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jun 7
Summary
David Lammy said he phoned JD Vance on Saturday to tell him he was "wrong" to link 18-year-old Henry Nowak's murder to "mass invasion of migrants."
Vance had posted on X that Nowak would still be alive if European elites had resisted migration, but Lammy said the Southampton killing "has got nothing to do with mass migration."
Vickrum Digwa — a British man born in the UK — was jailed for life for murdering Nowak in December after falsely claiming racial abuse and self-defence.
Mark Nowak, Henry's father, had already urged calm after sentencing, saying he did not want his son's death used to fuel division, hatred or tension.
The clash comes despite Lammy and Vance's long-running friendship and adds to a rockier UK-US relationship after Britain stayed out of the Trump administration's Iran offensive.