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Things got uncomfortable when Vice President JD Vance He commented on his previous comments on the environment of freedom of expression of Great Britain, a few meters from the British prime minister Keir Starmer during an Oval office meeting.
Vance doubled his comments at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month when he said he feared that freedom of expression was “in retirement” in Europe.
“For many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, the old entrenched interests that are hidden behind the ugly words of the Soviet era such as erroneous information and misinformation, who simply do not like the idea that someone with an alternative point of view could express a different opinion or, God does not want to express it, vote differently, or even worse, win a choice,” he won a choice, “said Vance.
President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, center on the left, along with Vice President JD Vance, right, and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, left, in the White House. (Carl Court/Pool through AP)
On Thursday, when Starmer met with the president Donald Trump And white house administration officials, Vance was next to his comments.
“I said what I said, that we have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the United Kingdom and also with some of our European allies,” he said.
“But we also know that there have been infractions in freedom of expression that really affect not only British. Of course, what the British do in their own country depends on them,” Vance added. “But (it also affects) to American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens. So, that is something we will talk about today at lunch.”
The European Soviet style censorship of Vance in the speech of the Munich Security Conference
Trump shakes his hand with Starmer in the White House. (Carl Court/Pool through AP)
Starmer, sitting just a few meters away next to Trump, quickly intervened.
“We have had freedom of expression for a long time, a long time in the United Kingdom, and it will last a lot, a long time,” said the politician of the Labor Party.
“Certainly, we would not want to reach American citizens and (regular), and we don’t do it, and that is absolutely correct,” he told Vance. “But in relation to freedom of expression in The United KingdomI am very proud of that, our history there. “
In Munich, Vance cited the case of a veteran of the British army who was convicted of violating a safe area around an abortion clinic where he He prayed in silence outside.
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He decreased the application of damping areas, claiming that the Scottish government had warned people against private prayer within their own homes.
