Things became uncomfortable then Vice President JD Vance Noted about his earlier comments about British freedom of expression, just a few feet from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during an Oval Office meeting.
Earlier this month, Vance doubled his comments at Munich’s security conference when he said he feared that the free expression in Europe “withdrew”.
“For many of us on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, it seems more and more to old deep-rooted interests that hide behind ugly Soviet era Words such as wrong information and disinformation, which simply do not like to keep the idea that someone with an alternative point of view can express a different opinion or, forbid, vote another way, win a different way,” van “.
President Donald Trump meets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Center Left, alongside Vice President JD Vance, Right, and the British Foreign Minister David Lammy, Left, in the White House. (Carl Court/Pool via AP)
On Thursday, when Starmer met President Donald Trump And administration officers in the White House, Vance stood in his comments.
“I said what I said, namely that of course we have a special relationship with our friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies,” he said.
“But we also know that there have been infringements of free speech that not only affect the British. Of course, what the British in their own country is up to them,” Vance added. “But (it also influences) American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens. So that’s something we will talk about today during lunch.”
Vance Descerates ‘Soviet’ style European censorship in address for the Munich Safety Conference
Trump shakes hands with starmer in the White House. (Carl Court/Pool via AP)
Starmer, sitting just a few meters away next to Trump, was quickly in.
“We have had free speech in the United Kingdom for a long time and it will last a long time,” said the politician of the Labor Party.
“Certainly, we would not want to reach and (regulate) American citizens, and we don’t do that, and that is absolutely true,” he said Vance. “But in relation to free speech in the UKI am really proud of that – our history there. “
In Munich, Vance called the case of a veteran of the British army who was convicted of violating a safe zone around an abortion clinic where he prayer outside.
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He decided the enforcement of buffer zones and claimed that the Scottish government had warned people in their own home against private prayers.
