I won't forget working men, vows Trump's Silicon Valley VP hopeful

REPUBLICAN vice presidential hopeful JD Vance introduced himself to US voters as a defender of “forgotten” workers, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy played up their shared troubled backgrounds.

- Jitendra Joshi

Mr Lammy said he got on well with Mr Vance, despite the Ohio senator claiming that Labour-run Britain was now the first “Islamist” country with nuclear weapons, and vowed to work with whoever is elected by US voters in November after he previously called Donald Trump a “tyrant in a toupée”.

The former president revealed Mr Vance as his running mate this week and the senator formally accepted his nomination at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee last night with a speech that lent heavily on his rags-to-riches rise, as documented in the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which Mr Lammy has said reduced him to tears.

After he was introduced by his Indian-American lawyer wife Usha, Mr Vance told cheering delegates: “In small towns like mine in Ohio, or next door in Pennsylvania, or in Michigan, in states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas and children were sent to war.