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Vice President JD Vance during the graduation ceremony Thursday, May 28, 2026, at Air Force Academy, Colo.. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) JD Vance has blamed “the mass invasion of migrants” for the murder of Henry Nowak. The US vice-president said the teenager’s death “is as tragic as it is enraging” in a thinly-veiled attack on Keir Starmer’s government. Eighteen-year-old Henry was handcuffed and arrested by police as he lay dying after being wrongly accused of racism by his killer, Vickram Digwa. Digwa, who is Sikh, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years at Southampton Crown Court on Monday. The case has sparked a furious political row, with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage being condemned by the PM and Kemi Badenoch for claiming it is proof of “two-tier policing” in the UK. In a post on X, vance said: “Henry Nowak died the same way a civilisation dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. “His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it. “Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. “One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse. “It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilisation. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.” Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few… https://t.co/e3HkjzWzwU — JD Vance (@JDVance) June 5, 2026 His intervention comes after deputy prime minister David Lammy condemned the US State Department for also wading into the row . In a post on X, the State Department said: “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilisational decline. They must be rejected across the West.” But Lammy told Radio 4′s Today programme: “I don’t recognise this caricature of a two-tier policing system in our country. I just don’t see it in the interactions I have with policing and so I do reject that.” Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson Calum Miller said the prime minister should summon the US ambassador to Downing Street to explain the State Department’s comments. He said: “The Trump administration should not be using the tragic murder of Henry Nowak as a political football. “This is flagrant foreign interference that seeks to fan the flames of division.” Subscribe to Commons People , the podcast that makes politics easy. Every week, Kevin Schofield and Kate Nicholson unpack the week’s biggest stories to keep you informed. Join us for straightforward analysis of what’s going on at Westminster. Related... 'Shove Your Division': Trump Government Sparks Angry Backlash By Wading Into Henry Nowak Row Starmer Accuses Musk Of 'Trying To Whip Up Division' Over Henry Nowak Murder Farage Torn Apart For 'Dangerous And Un-British' Response To Henry Nowak's Murder
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