So, JD Vance was exaggerating when he suggested that free speech in Europe was under attack?

I wonder whether Helen Jones, a 54-year-old school administrator and grandmother living in northwest England, would agree.

Mrs. Jones was not impressed when she learned about what had been said in a WhatsApp Group that included a couple of Labour MPs (including Andrew Gwynne, the now former health minister) and eleven Labour councillors (elected local government representatives).

BBC:

In messages seen by the Mail on Sunday, Gwynne said he hoped a 72-year-old woman would soon be dead after she wrote to her local councillor about bin [trash] collections

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