JD Vance urges UK anti-immigration activists to ‘keep on going’

US vice-president appeared to align with attendees of Tommy Robinson’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London The US vice-president, JD Vance, has urged anti-immigration activists in the UK to “keep on going” after tens of thousands gathered for a rally in London. Vance appeared to align himself with those who attended a march on Saturday where the far-right activist Tommy Robinson told supporters to prepare for the “battle of Britain”. Organisers claimed that millions had attended his “unite the kingdom” event, but police estimated the number of demonstrators to be far lower, at about 60,000. The campaign group Hope Not Hate nevertheless said the scale of Robinson’s movement remained “deeply worrying”. Addressing reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Vance claimed that “all over the west” there is “this idea that the way to generate prosperity is to bring in millions and millions of unvetted people and drop them into your neighborhoods”. “And we simply reject that idea,” he said. “To everybody in the UK who rejects that idea, I’d encourage them to just keep on going. It’s OK to want to defend your culture. It’s OK to want to live in a sa