PoliticsExpert warns UK is in ‘free fall’ on free speech as MP calls Trump grant ‘MAGA money meddling’

The U.S. Embassy in London is offering up to $500,000 to support shared U.S.-UK values including free speech, due process and limited government. Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart calls the funding “Trump’s MAGA money meddling in democracy,” while FIRE president Greg Lukianoff describes the UK’s speech environment as a “true free speech disaster” amid tighter restrictions.

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