Overview

• A heavy security operation by US Secret Service and Thames Valley Police has sealed off Dean Manor with an 18-vehicle motorcade, road closures and checkpoints requiring ID, though officers clarified residents were not asked about social media accounts.
• Around 80 protesters gathered in Charlbury for a ‘Vance Not Welcome Party,’ carrying satirical signs and displaying a viral bald-head meme on balloons, cakes and a van to express dissent against his politics and US policies.
• On August 13 at RAF Fairford, Vance addressed US Air Force personnel, praising the enduring US-UK military partnership and underscoring the administration’s commitment to European security.
• Private engagements in the Cotswolds have included meetings with Foreign Secretary David Lammy and discussions with shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and media figure Thomas Skinner.
• Comments from locals and public figures have ranged from Jeremy Clarkson’s jibe about a Cotswolds no-fly zone hampering filming to residents’ frustration over disrupted village life as Vance prepares for the next leg of his Britain tour in Scotland.