Ex-Trump ambassador claims more people jailed in UK for free speech than RussiaBBC Newsnight
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00:00But there will be a change.
00:01Right.
00:02You may not have heard, but a former conservative prime
00:04minister who stood shoulder to shoulder
00:07with a former US president, George H.W. Bush,
00:10said at the weekend he found it absolutely odd,
00:13was the word he used, that, for example,
00:17JD Vance, the US vice president, was
00:19talking about a retreat of free speech in Europe and the UK
00:24at the same time as cuddling up to President Putin,
00:28where, if you speak against him, you get put in jail,
00:31where, if you oppose his policies,
00:34you get poisoned, where you can be thrown.
00:36I just have to interrupt you and just
00:38say that there are more people in jail in the UK
00:42because they spoke what they thought was right
00:46or they had interest online than there are in all of Russia.
00:50Oh, my goodness.
00:51I don't know where you've got that from.
00:53I've got a guest here who's laughing his head off at that.
00:55Can I just ask you?