Starmer suggests US ‘trying to interfere in our democracy’ over Nowak claims

Prime minister’s office responds after JD Vance blames British teenager’s death on mass migration How Britain was rocked by Henry Nowak’s murder – and why the US intervened Keir Starmer has suggested the US is trying to interfere in British democracy after JD Vance, the US vice-president, blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration. The prime minister’s office responded after the senior Republican politician claimed 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”. Continue reading...

Rowena Mason and Jamie Grierson · Fri, Jun 5, 2026, 12:12 PM
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Starmer suggests US ‘trying to interfere in our democracy’ over Nowak claims

Prime minister’s office responds after JD Vance blames British teenager’s death on mass migration

How Britain was rocked by Henry Nowak’s murder – and why the US intervened

Keir Starmer has suggested the US is trying to interfere in British democracy after JD Vance, the US vice-president, blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration.

The prime minister’s office responded after the senior Republican politician claimed 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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