BRITAIN must avoid the "very dark path" of silencing free speech, JD Vance urged today.

The US Vice President warned the West has grown "a little too comfortable with censoring" during a press conference with Foreign Secretary David Lammy .

The Veep said: "I think the entire collective West, the transatlantic relationship, our Nato allies, certainly the United States under the Biden administration, got a little too comfortable with censoring rather than engaging with a diverse array of opinions."

Mr Vance has previously slammed Britain for enforcing some of the toughest restrictions on free speech globally.

In February, during a televised meeting between Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump in the Oval Office, the Vice President flagged that "infringements on free speech" are now impa

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