Britain Will Be First Islamist Country With an A-Bomb, JD Vance Warns

Starmer is no Corbyn, but Labour is trying to win back Muslim voters

An anti-Israel protest in London. Photo: Alisdaire Hickson, CreativeCommons.

Shortly before Donald Trump picked Senator JD Vance as his running mate, Vance asked at a conference in Washington, “What is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon?” After considering Iran, and acknowledging that Pakistan “maybe already, kind of counts,” he suggested “maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over.”

The remarks touched a nerve in the UK. Writing from London, I can report with a fair degree of certainty, the Islamists are not yet in control of Westminster, their flag is not yet fluttering over Downing Street, and Taliban checkpoints are nowhere to be seen.

But the Labour Party, with its recent unhappy flirtation with the wilder shores of anti-Semitism, won a landslide victory in Britain’s July 4 general election. It is worth exploring this past and the party’s relationship with Muslim voters.