Vance has previously described Britain under Labour as the first “truly Islamist” country with a nuclear weapon.
Lammy told BBC Breakfast: “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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Expanding on his views on Vance on BBC Radio 4, Lammy said he had started to discuss the US view on global defence at the security conference in Munich in February.“Yes, he has had strong things to say about European defences, and he has had a point of view about Ukraine,” Lammy said. “That’s why I’ve been engaged with JD Vance for many, many months.”
The foreign secretary once called Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi sociopath” and “a tyrant in a toupee”, but has distanced himself from those comments as the US presidential election has approached.
More recently Lammy has spoken at conservative events in the US, telling the Hudson Institute in May that he “gets the agenda that drives ‘America first’”.
I could find common ground with an invading space alien.
Doesn’t mean I’m going to act like that means it’s appropriate for me to work with them or claim they’re not evil.
I keep hearing about this Lammy guy being a right knob.
…Certainly be seems stupid - just because you follow the same organised religion as someone else and come from a similar socioeconomic background, doesn’t mean you’re even remotely anything alike.
It’s a good thing this guy who doesn’t understand how people work (or is lying about it) isn’t in charge of anything important. Right?
I think he’s just saying the things you have to say to appease the situation. Obviously this Vance guy is a complete nut case. But we can’t do anything about that. Be preferable if the US could elect people with more than six brain cells but that seems to be not really an option on the table so we have to deal with the people we get.
Lammy’s not doing anything different from what any home secretary would do in this situation. He’s definitely not stupid in my opinion. Never understood how Lammy manages to attract so much criticism from people on both left and right; it seems disproportionate to me.
I suspect that the color of his skin might have something to do with it.
He is, in my opinion, doing a pretty good job and is infinitely better than any of the previous bags of uselessness we’ve had, and yet somehow he’s attracting criticism. None of this criticism seem to be related to his talents, again given the fact that he’s superior to all his recent predecessors. So I can only assume it’s racism.