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British deputy prime minister tells JD Vance he was wrong to blame immigration for teen's murder 49%
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6/7/2026, 6:38:45 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 29.1% saturation with 104 hits. Analysis detected 698 faulty-reasoning hits from 358 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 49.5% and a BS Rank of 49% (11,298 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 51.60% of the article peer group.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s deputy prime minister said Sunday that he told U.S.
Vice President JD Vance he was wrong to blame immigration for the death of a university student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from a stab wound.
David Lammy, who is also the justice minister, said he challenged Vance in what he described as a “robust” phone call on Saturday.
Lammy and Vance have struck up a friendship, based on their religious beliefs and family backgrounds, even though they come from different sides of the political spectrum.
“We had an agreeable conversation because we have got a relationship, but I wanted to make him clear that I disagree with some of the facts that he was asserting and to present the facts to him,” Lammy told Sky News.
The call came a day after Vance said in a post on social platform X that there should be “righteous anger” in response to the murder of Henry Nowak, 18, who died in December after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in the English city of Southampton.
Digwa, who is Sikh, falsely claimed to police he was the victim of a racist assault by Nowak, who was white.
When police officers arrived, they initially treated the wounded man as a suspect before noticing his injury and trying to resuscitate him.
The case has been seized on by anti-immigration activists and politicians in the U.K.
On Tuesday, police in Southampton were pelted with chairs, cans, rocks and flares after a demonstration over Nowak’s death attended by far-right figures and others.
In a statement issued Friday in response to Vance’s comments, Prime Minister Keir Starmer ‘s office criticized people “trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets.”
Lammy also said he told Vance “it’s not helpful to tweet in this way, partly because of what the Nowak family have asked for, and reminded him about their desire not to make this an issue of division and hatred, but to make this an issue of common sense.”
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