JD Vance had a stark message for Europe: free speech is in retreat throughout the continent – and, he claimed – the most important menace got here from inside. It shocked his viewers in Munich into silence – though later Germany’s defence minister insisted that any comparability between Europe and authoritarian regimes was “unacceptable”.
Whereas Sir Keir Starmer – who spoke to Mr Zelenskyy by cellphone this morning – defended Ukraine’s “irreversible path” to becoming a member of NATO.
