UK Foreign Secretary Finding Common Ground w/GOP Vice Pres. Nominee

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(The Guardian) Away from the US, UK foreign secretary David Lammy has said he is already engaging with JD Vance, and can identify with him because of their common working class and Christian backgrounds.

Lammy was speaking just hours after the possible future US vice-president reiterated his “America first” views, pledging to the Republican national convention (RNC) that he would not send US soldiers to war abroad unnecessarily.

“We will send our kids to war only if we must,” Vance said, signalling a significant policy shift for the US which has cemented its position as the defender of the world’s democracies ever since the second world war.

Vance has previously described Britain under Labour as the first “truly Islamist” country with a nuclear weapon.

Lammy told the BBC: Let me just say on JD Vance that I’ve met him now on several occasions, we share a similar working class background with addiction issues in our family. We’ve written books on that. We’ve talked about that. And we’re both Christians so I think I can find common ground with JD Vance.

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