Laura Kuenssberg

Vance, piling in to the row.

It's become a huge and fraught argument between reform, the Conservatives, the government and the other parties.

And exactly what the family of Henry did not want to happen.

Let's start today with their plea outside the court on Monday for politicians and all of us to stay calm.

We need real solutions.

We need investment in prevention.

We need stronger action on the sale, the ownership and carrying off all knives.

And as this case so painfully demonstrates, we need common sense applied to our laws.

This doesn't mean knee-jerk reactions.

This doesn't mean going to extremes.

It just means a common sense approach to law and order.

As the KC for the prosecution summed up in court, this is not a case about Sikhism.

This is not a case about racism.

This is a case about murder.

Compare Mr Novak's statement with what JD Vance posted on X yesterday.

He said Henry Novak died the same way a civilisation died, abandoned, handcuffed by the authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, accused of hate crimes he didn't commit.

He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants.

Now, we know that Henry's killer was born and lived in the United Kingdom.

We don't know if JD Vance knows that.

We don't know if he would think it was relevant or indeed if politicians are just wanting to pile into this row for their own purposes.