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 39-year-old 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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