Downing Street hits out at 'people seeking to stir division' after Vance's Nowak post

Downing Street has deed retired astatine "people trying to interfere successful our ideology and seeking to disturbance up division", aft JD Vance's comments connected the execution of Henry Nowak.

The US vice-president blamed the decease of the 18-year-old-British student, who was fatally stabbed successful December by Vickrum Digwa, connected the "mass penetration of migrants" and said the "only effect is righteous anger".

After the post connected X, the Downing Street spokesperson said the Nowak household "have said they bash not privation his decease to beryllium utilized to make further division".

"Our authorities should bring radical unneurotic adjacent successful the astir unspeakable of circumstances. That is who we are arsenic a country," the connection added.

In his post, Vance described the sidesplitting arsenic "tragic arsenic it is enraging", saying that Nowak would inactive beryllium live contiguous "if the past fewer generations of European elites had stood their crushed against the authorities of self-hatred and the wide penetration of migrants".

The Vance station echoed a US State Department station connected Thursday that said: "Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They indispensable beryllium rejected crossed the West."

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of "trying to whip up division" implicit Nowak's murder.

Posting connected X connected Tuesday, Musk wrote: "Send the video to everyone you cognize showing however heinously Nowak was treated by the constabulary successful his dying moments and however the constabulary cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.

Digwa, falsely claimed helium had been racially abused and had acted successful self-defence, was jailed for beingness connected Monday.

There were convulsive protests adjacent wherever Nowak was killed successful Southampton pursuing the merchandise of bodycam footage showing constabulary handcuffing 18-year-old Nowak arsenic helium laic dying.

Ed Davey, person of the Liberal Democrats, said "we each request to defy attempts similar this to politicise Henry Nowak's decease and disagreement our state - whether they travel from MAGA politicians similar Vance oregon their cronies present successful the UK".