Words of Henry Nowak’s father continue to fall on deaf ears

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David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, said yesterday that he told JD Vance, his US counterpart, that his comments on Henry Nowak were wrong. The US is again showing unusual level of interest in UK affairs, after Vance blamed the murder of Nowak, a British teenager, on “the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants”. Vickrum Digwa, who killed Nowak in December and was jailed for at least 21 years, was born in Southampton. Nowak’s father does not want his son’s death “to be used to create further division, hatred or tension”. For Reform, Vance and others, these words seem to mean nothing.