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The U.K. Can’t Champion Free Trade While Abandoning Free Speech

In April 2024, Scotland enacted the Hate Crime and Public Order Act, which criminalizes words that amount to subjectively “stirring up hatred.”

Lois McLatchie Miller
The U.K. Can’t Champion Free Trade While Abandoning Free Speech
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President Trump showed European allies the ‘art of the deal’ this week as his own luxury resort in Scotland played host to negotiations for one of the largest trade deals in history.

Accompanied by bagpipes, the President shook hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and heralded a major new US-EU trade pact — encompassing a 15% tariff rate on European imports.

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