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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

Cabinet minister Reynolds hits back at Vance over religious freedom claims

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds arriving at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

A Cabinet minister has hit back after US vice president JD Vance criticised the UK over a legal case in which a former serviceman who silently prayed outside an abortion clinic was convicted of breaching the safe zone around the centre.

In a wider attack on what he suggested is a shift away from democratic values across Europe, JD Vance claimed the “basic liberties of religious Britons” were under threat.

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