David Lammy is friends with vice-president JD Vance.David Lammy has hit back at Donald Trump’s government’s claim that there is “two-tier policing” in the UK.
The deputy prime minister spoke out after the US State Department waded into the row over the murder of Henry Nowak.
The 18-year-old was handcuffed and arrested as he lay dying after being wrongly accused of racism by his killer, Vickram Digwa.
Digwa was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years at Southampton Crown Court on Monday.
In a message posted 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.
“The United States sends our condolences to the fami...
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