Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has mocked the UK as the "Islamic Republic of Britain".
Speaking on a podcast to Avi Harush, a former military officer who lost his son in combat in Gaza, Mr Netanyahu said he had met Winston Churchill's grandson, who supported Israel.
"Just try to find that kind of attitude in Britain now - or in what’s known as 'The Islamic Republic of Britain'. You won't find it," he jabbed. Israel's population is around 18 per cent Muslim, while Britain's is around 6.5 per cent.
The Israeli Prime Minister then joked his country was at war with Iran to prevent a "second" Islamic country obtaining nuclear weapons. "Someone said - you know - that the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain," he said.
"We're making sure there won't be another one like that in Iran." In 2024, JD Vance said the UK would be the first "truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon" at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington DC.
Angela Rayner, then the Deputy Prime Minister, rejected Mr Vance's warning, saying he had said "quite a lot of fruity things in the past". Tensions between Britain and Israel have only increased in the wake of Labour's election victory.
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