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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin

Cabinet minister hits out at JD Vance’s rant as Kemi Badenoch urges UK to ‘fight for’ free speech

A cabinet minister has hit back at an extraordinary rant by US vice president JD Vance, in which he attacked European democracies and claimed the greatest threat facing the continent was not Russia or China but "from within".

Mr Vance stunned delegates at the Munich Security Conference on Friday as he accused Europe of “retreating from some of its most fundamental values”, including free speech.

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