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JD Vance blames Henry Nowak’s murder on ‘mass invasion of migrants’

The Guardian Politics Friday 05 June 2026, 18:12 UTC By Rowena Mason and Jamie Grierson 1 min read
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US vice-president speaks out over UK teenager’s death after Keir Starmer rebuffs claim of two-tier policing​JD Vance, the US vice-president, has blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration, hours after Keir Starmer rejected the US government’s claim that there was “two-tier policing” in the UK.The senior Republican politician weighed into the case of the murdered 18-year-old, claiming in a post on X that Nowak would be alive “if the last few generations of...

US vice-president speaks out over UK teenager’s death after Keir Starmer rebuffs claim of two-tier policing

​JD Vance, the US vice-president, has blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration, hours after Keir Starmer rejected the US government’s claim that there was “two-tier policing” in the UK.

The senior Republican politician weighed into the case of the murdered 18-year-old, claiming in a post on X that Nowak would be alive “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”.

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