U.S. State Department Monitoring Lucy Connolly Case Amid Free Speech Concerns
Intervention over mother jailed for inciting racial hatred follows Vice President JD Vance’s warning that freedom of expression in the UK is ‘in retreat.’ The U.S. State Department has said it is monitoring the case of Lucy Connolly, the British mother jailed for 31 months for a social media post made following the Southport murders,