JD Vance comes to the Cotswolds
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The US vice-president JD Vance is holidaying with his family in the Cotswold village of Dean. But on the side, he's meeting a phalanx of British politicians. Who's on the roll-call? And what does this tell us about where Trump's possible successor sees the future of British politics?
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Guest: Josh Glancy, Associate Editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 0:08.4 | This week, Magaland touched down in the Cotswolds. |
| 0:13.4 | It is great to be here. Again, my wife and I love this area of the UK. We actually were here a couple of years ago. |
| 0:20.0 | American Vice President J.D. Vance and his family are visiting for their summer break |
| 0:24.1 | and mixing business with pleasure. |
| 0:26.5 | We've gone fishing in the lake outside, and unfortunately the one strain on the special |
| 0:31.1 | relationship is that all of my kids caught a fish, but the foreign secretary did not. I'm sorry. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm sorry. He's fished with our foreign secretary, |
| 0:39.7 | had drinks with Tories, barbecued with some interesting folk from the new political right, |
| 0:44.3 | and had breakfast with Nigel Farage. |
| 0:50.3 | What does this tell us about who the odds-on favourite to succeed Donald Trump is backing here? |
| 0:56.2 | And is it a boost for the special relationship that he's not sunning himself in the Maldives or Tuscany, |
| 1:00.5 | but veg shopping near Chipping Norton? |
| 1:10.7 | The story today. J.D. Vance's manoeuvres in the Cotswolds. |
| 1:19.5 | My name is Josh Glancy. I am the associate editor of the Sunday Times. |
| 1:29.3 | Have you ever been to Dean before? |
| 1:31.4 | I was trying to think about that recently. I'm not sure I have. I have pottered about the Cotswolds in my misspent youth. |
| 1:38.2 | I've been to Charlebury. I think I've been to Wilderness Festival a few times. I think I've been to Burford. |
| 1:43.8 | I don't think I've been to Dean, but... few times. I think I've been to Burford. |
| 1:46.1 | I don't think I've been to Dean, but... I've driven through Dean. Right. Whilst around Chipping Norton and remembered that David Cameron lives somewhere near there, so I thought, well, let's just do a quick drive to see if we can spot him. And did you? No, no. But pleasant. Yeah, it's a gorgeous part of the world. Why is JD Vance there, would you say? |
| 1:43.2 | Superficially, you can just look at it. |
| 1:44.3 | It's a really nice place to go on holiday. |
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