JD Vance said at a conference for conservatives last week that the UK could become "the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon" after Labour's victory in the General Election.

As the UK already has nuclear weapons, it appears the 39yearold Ohio senator was joking that the UK was on track to becoming dominated by radical Islam.

He told the National Conservatism conference on Thursday: "I have to beat up on the UK just one additional thing. I was talking with a friend recently.

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