JD Vance said he does not want the UK to go down a "very dark path" of losing free speech during a meeting with the foreign secretary at his country estate.

The US vice president has previously raised concerns that free speech is being eroded in the UK.

However, during a two-day visit to David Lammy's grace and favour 115-room mansion, Chevening House in Kent, Mr Vance kept his criticism a bit more low key.

Asked about free speech in the UK during a televised meeting of the two men, Mr Vance said he has "raised concerns" about free speech in his own country and accused the West of "censoring rather than engaging" with different opinions.

He said: "I think the entire collective West, the transatlantic relationship, our NATO allies, certainly the United States under the Biden administrat

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