The U.S.Embassy in London is offering up to $500,000 in grants to bolster shared values between the United States and the United Kingdom, including freedom of speech, due process and limited government, but at least one British critic is rejecting the offered funding as "MAGA money meddling."Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart framed the grant as "Trump’s MAGA money meddling in democracy," in a quote to The Guardian."We have a proud tradition of liberty and freedom of speech in this country," Smart added.That tradition, according to free speech defenders, is under threat across the pond.BIBLE VERSE LEADS TO TRIAL IN EUROPE.
GROWING CRACKDOWN THREATENS OUR US-UK VALUESLisa Smart, Liberal Democrats' spokesperson for Home Affairs and MP for Hazel Grove, addresses delegates during the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference at Harrogate Convention Centre on March 21, 2025, in Harrogate, England.Smart criticized a U.S.
grant to foster shared values between the U.S.and the UK as "Trump's MAGA money meddling in our democracy." (Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)"It is a true free speech disaster in the UK, and they don't even seem to know what's happening," Greg Lukianoff, president of the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), told Fox News Digital.Lukianoff posited that the UK's current attitude to free speech means it needs all the help that it can get."Whether the help is coming from JD Vance or Trump or maybe some future Democrat who sees the light on this stuff, the UK should be accepting help on freedom of speech because they are in crisis, and it's unsustainable," Lukianoff told Fox News Digital.WAR OF WORDS IGNITES OVER TRUMP ADMIN REBUKE OF BRITISH POLICE AFTER TEEN BLED TO DEATH IN HANDCUFFSThe U.S.
Embassy in London, in response to Smart's criticisms, noted that Liberal Democrats did not push back on Biden-era grants that could be viewed as political.In response to the accusation that the U.S.is "meddling in British democracy," the U.S.
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