{"id":2404910,"date":"2025-02-20T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-truss-warns-vance-is-right-on-european-free-speech-comments-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T01:24:13","slug":"liz-truss-warns-vance-is-right-on-european-free-speech-comments-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-truss-warns-vance-is-right-on-european-free-speech-comments-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Truss warns Vance is \u2018right\u2019 on European free speech comments &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliz-truss-warns-vance-is-right-on-european-free-speech-comments-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2404910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former UK \u2064Prime Minister Liz Truss has come to the defense of Vice President JD Vance after he criticized European leaders for censoring free speech during a recent speech at the Munich security Conference. Vance accused countries like Britain and Germany of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dnc-chair-donna-brazile-says-gop-will-become-maga-party-with-pence-gone\/\" title=\"DNC chair predicts GOP&#039;s transformation into &#039;MAGA party&#039; sans Pence.\">undermining democratic principles<\/a> by \u200cshutting down media and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-jack-smiths-search-warrant-sweep-twitter-data-from-millions-of-americans\/\" title=\"Did Jack Smith&#039;s search warrant collect Twitter data from millions of Americans?\">limiting political participation<\/a>, warnings that he felt echoed oppressive regimes. Truss supported Vance&#8217;s claims \u200dand suggested that \u200bEuropean governments were treating George orwell&#8217;s\u200b &#8220;1984&#8221; as \u200ba manual \u200bfor governance. Additionally, she announced plans to launch a new free speech media \u2062network with assistance from American\u2064 allies, aiming to challenge\u200d what she views as censorship in Britain.This initiative was discussed further during her\u2064 address at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the United States. Vance&#8217;s remarks prompted backlash\u2063 from European politicians, who labeled his\u2064 claims as conspiracy theories and unacceptable \u2064comparisons to authoritarian regimes. Nonetheless, Vance maintained that speech freedom is essential to democracy and criticized restrictive speech laws in Europe.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Liz Truss warns Vance is &lsquo;right&rsquo; over trouncing of European leaders on free speech<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1121641\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-kingdom\">U.K.<\/a> Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/liz-truss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Liz Truss<\/a> defended Vice President JD Vance after he rebuked European countries in a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">high-profile foreign policy speech<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>During the Munich Security Conference last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3320306\/jd-vance-european-allies-free-speech-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Vance accused<\/a> the leaders of Britain, Germany, and other allies of censoring free speech, &ldquo;shutting down media, shutting down elections, or shutting people out of the political process.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\">vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s speech drew swift censure from enraged European politicians, Truss publicly rose to his defense on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vance &ldquo;is right,&rdquo; the former British leader said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/trussliz\/status\/1892624232225325244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">post<\/a> to social media. &ldquo;Europe&rsquo;s governments &mdash; especially Britain&rsquo;s &mdash; are treating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Nineteen-Eighty-four\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">George Orwell&rsquo;s <em>1984<\/em><\/a>  like an instruction manual.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Truss also disclosed that she is establishing &ldquo;a new free speech media network, with some help from our American allies.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The once-prime minister revealed further details of the network <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/trussliz\/status\/1892642827911254109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">during a speech later that afternoon <\/a>in the United States at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which she said she wanted to enlist X owner Elon Musk&rsquo;s help in targeting the British &ldquo;deep state.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Musk has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3321290\/musk-eyes-connection-between-britains-grooming-gangs-and-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> long criticized Britain&rsquo;s speech laws<\/a>, which are among the strictest in the West. The British government has demanded that social media companies, including Musk&rsquo;s X, be held accountable for information deemed harmful or false posted on their platforms. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The U.K. has become a police state,&rdquo; Musk said&nbsp;last November&nbsp;in response to news that a British citizen had been arrested for livestreaming a protest.<\/p>\n<p>During his<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/02\/18\/vance-speech-munich-full-text-read-transcript-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Munich speech<\/a> on Feb. 14, Vance criticized Romania for canceling its presidential election, slammed the British government for arresting a man silently praying outside an abortion facility, and called out Brussels, where &ldquo;EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they&rsquo;ve judged to be, quote, &lsquo;hateful content.&#8217;&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The vice president also targeted Germany for prohibiting populist parties on both the Left and the Right from participating in the Munich conference&nbsp;and criticized Sweden for &ldquo;distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In Britain, and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old, entrenched interests hiding behind ugly, Soviet-era words like &lsquo;misinformation&rsquo; and &lsquo;disinformation,&rsquo; who simply don&rsquo;t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion, or, God forbid, vote a different way, or, even worse, win an election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance was condemned by European establishment leaders following his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-allies-sanction-chinese-officials-over-uyghur-genocide\/\" title=\"U.S., allies sanction Chinese officials over Uyghur genocide\">foreign policy chief<\/a>, Kaja Kallas, said at the Munich event that Vance &ldquo;was trying to pick a fight with us&rdquo; with his speech. Cathryn Cl&uuml;ver Ashbrook, a former head of the German Council on Foreign Relations, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/deep-rift-between-us-and-eu-opens-up-in-munich\/a-71624354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>DW<\/em><\/a>  that Vance&rsquo;s speech was riddled &ldquo;with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and the demand that these misrepresentations be taken seriously.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>And German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that &ldquo;if I understood [Vance] correctly, he is comparing conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is unacceptable, and it is not the Europe and not the democracy in which I live and am currently campaigning,&rdquo; Pistorius said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220431\/how-elon-musk-helped-trump-back-to-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HOW ELON MUSK HELPED WILL TRUMP BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vance, for his part, called on Europe to renege on strict laws governing speech, saying they undermined democracy. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To believe in democracy is to understand that each of our citizens has wisdom and has a voice. And if we refuse to listen to that voice, even our most successful fights will secure very little,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;Europeans, the people have a voice. European leaders have a choice. And my strong belief is that we do not need to be afraid of the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1121641\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1121641\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Truss supports Vance&#8217;s critique of European leaders on free speech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2404911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/liz-truss.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50777,32311,38180,15469,32076],"class_list":["post-2404910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-european-politics","tag-free-speech","tag-liz-truss","tag-vance","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/liz-truss.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404915,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404910\/revisions\/2404915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}