The outspoken vice president refrained from criticizing U.K. laws on freedom of speech and belief, despite having done so previously.
He admitted to having “raised some criticism, concerns about our friends on this side of the Atlantic,” but noted that “many of the things that I worry most about were happening in the United States from 2020 to 2024.”
“I just don’t want other countries to follow us down what I think was a very dark path under the Biden administration,” Vance said, emphasizing that his free speech concerns are centered on America.
Discussions between the two men are expected to cover the situation in Gaza after Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to fully occupy the Gaza strip, which world leaders, including Keir Starmer, have condemned.
Vance informed reporters that the U.S. government had been engaged in “constant negotiations and conversations, even the last 24 hours, about how to get more aid into Gaza, solve that humanitarian problem, and also how to get Hamas to a position where they can’t continue to threaten the citizens and the civilians of Israel.”
He acknowledged that “there’s a lot of work to do there” and reiterated his view that the U.K. and the U.S. might have “disagreements about how exactly to accomplish those common objectives” following Starmer’s statement about recognizing Palestinian statehood if Israel doesn’t shift its approach.
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