{"id":277731,"date":"2025-07-20T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277731\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:56:11","slug":"jd-vance-to-spend-summer-family-holiday-in-the-cotswolds-jd-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277731\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance to spend summer family holiday in the Cotswolds | JD Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"

He made his name with a memoir set among the hillbillies of the rugged Appalachians \u2013 yet it seems JD Vance<\/a> now favours altogether more gentle hills.<\/p>\n

For his family\u2019s holiday this year the US vice-president is understood to have chosen the Cotswolds, where Land Rovers outnumber pickup trucks.<\/p>\n

Vance, his wife, Usha, and their three young children are expected next month to rent a property in the region \u2013 an increasingly popular choice for wealthy tourists \u2013 soon after Donald Trump<\/a>, the US president, finishes a stay in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Earlier in August, Vance and his family are expected to visit London, despite the vice-president having said \u2013 shortly before last year\u2019s presidential election \u2013 that the city was \u201cnot English any more<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In February, Vance lashed out at European governments \u2013 including that of the UK \u2013 accusing political leaders of suppressing free speech, failing to halt illegal migration and running in fear from voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,\u201d he told the Munich Security Conference, listing a string of cases <\/a>he claimed were evidence. Britain was singled out for arresting a man praying near an abortion clinic.<\/p>\n

But while Vance might enjoy the Cotswolds \u2013 home to the Chipping Norton set whose ranks include David Cameron and Jeremy Clarkson \u2013 a different reception could await when he later travels on to Scotland<\/a>, which is home to anti-Trump sentiment.<\/p>\n

In his Munich speech, Vance hit out at the Scottish government over abortion rights, saying it was distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay \u201cwithin so-called safe access zones\u201d, warning them that \u201ceven private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime in Britain and across Europe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Scottish government said Vance\u2019s claim was inaccurate. It appeared to be a reference to the introduction of safe access zones within 200 metres of abortion clinics, banning any form of harassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrivate prayer at home is not prohibited within safe access zones and no letter has ever suggested it was,\u201d added the spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s trip to the UK comes at a time when tourist traffic going in the opposite direction has plummeted against the backdrop of <\/strong>Trump\u2019s policies and rhetoric.<\/p>\n

The number of UK residents visiting the US was down 14.3% in March <\/a>compared with the same month in 2024, official figures showed. However, Britons continue to make up the largest number of overseas visitors to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He made his name with a memoir set among the hillbillies of the rugged Appalachians \u2013 yet it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-277731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114886383070061124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}