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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nina Lloyd

US should recognise UK is a free country, Badenoch says, amid free speech row

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

The US State Department should recognise that the UK is “a free country with liberal values”, Kemi Badenoch has said, after American officials expressed concern over the prosecution of a British anti-abortion campaigner.

The Tory leader said that laws surrounding so-called “buffer zones” outside abortion clinics had been passed democratically and “we need to respect what Parliament votes for”.

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