Lord Sumption spoke about free speech and slammed the USA. He was speaking on BBC Radio and said that as soon as you stand up for Palestinians in an American University, you will see that the land of the free isn’t real.
Lord Sumption on free speech in the US: “Try standing up for the Palestinians in an American University… so the principle offender against free speech at the moment… is in fact the USA… so it make it extremely ironic that they’ve taken to lecturing others on the subject.”
JD Vance
Lord Sumption’s intervention came after the US State Department made a rare intervention in British politics, warning of its “concerns about freedom of expression in the United Kingdom”.
J.D. Vance is intending to use spurious claims over free speech being attacked in the UK to force Keir Starmer to ditch his online safety bill and digital services tax as part of a deal on a free trade agreement.
Lord Sumption told PM on BBC Radio 4: “It’s a completely unjustifiable interference in the internal affairs of another country. I do not think that the United States has jurisdiction over the world’s laws.
“The fact is that all civilised countries place some limitations on free speech, even the United States.
“I don’t believe it’s any business of the United States to criticise this. The principal offender against free speech at the moment, outside obvious totalitarian states like Russia or China, is in fact the United States of America, which makes it extremely ironic that they’ve taken to lecturing other people on the subject.”
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