UK business secretary denies free speech issue featured in US tariff talks
Source reportedly says ‘no free trade without free speech’ after US bureau holds meeting with anti-abortion campaignerUK politics live – latest updatesThe business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has denied that the issue of free speech has featured in tariff negotiations with the US after reports a deal could be jeopardised by the outcome of a criminal case in Dorset.The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), an office within the US Department of State, has met anti-abortion campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt, who was prosecuted for an alleged breach of a buffer zone outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic. The verdict is due on Friday following a trial at Poole magistrates court. Continue reading...
Source reportedly says ‘no free trade without free speech’ after US bureau holds meeting with anti-abortion campaigner
The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has denied that the issue of free speech has featured in tariff negotiations with the US after reports a deal could be jeopardised by the outcome of a criminal case in Dorset.
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), an office within the US Department of State, has met anti-abortion campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt, who was prosecuted for an alleged breach of a buffer zone outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic. The verdict is due on Friday following a trial at Poole magistrates court. Continue reading...
