Overview
- At a White House press briefing, Vice President JD Vance told British demonstrators it is OK to defend their culture and urged them to keep going, calling on the UK to follow US-style border tightening.
- His remarks answered questions about the Unite the Kingdom march in London, which was organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson and drew about 60,000 people alongside a separate Nakba Day rally of 15,000 to 20,000.
- The two protests led to a £4.5 million policing operation and 43 arrests, including 11 for alleged hate crimes, according to the Metropolitan Police.
- UK leaders condemned the event, and the government barred 11 foreign nationals described as far-right agitators from entering before the march.
- Vance framed border control as an economic choice that raises wages for local workers and said low-wage immigration harms poorer Black and Hispanic Americans, a point he claimed also fits the UK.