{"id":314718,"date":"2025-12-14T00:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314718\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:11:19","slug":"uk-relaxed-about-trumps-social-media-checks-for-tourists-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314718\/","title":{"rendered":"UK relaxed about Trump\u2019s social media checks for tourists \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery country takes very seriously the way that it protects its borders and makes sure that it has a grip on people who come into the country that are aligned with its own values and principles,\u201d Kyle said when asked if he was worried about the plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not in a business of criticizing other countries in the way that they do it, because we are certainly taking it very seriously for our own country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyle spoke to POLITICO in California as part of a visit to advance trade talks and drum up investment alongside U.K. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall.<\/p>\n<p>Both Kendall and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/peterkyle\/status\/1360694405259268103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kyle<\/a> previously expressed criticism of Trump on social media before entering government.<\/p>\n<p>Kendall said \u201cthe American government is rightly passionate about freedom of speech and will follow its own values and principles there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery country takes very seriously the way that it protects its borders and makes sure that it has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[816,1336,141,59,57,58,31507,50,18905,224,86,426,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-314718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-borders","tag-data","tag-donald-trump","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-liz-kendall","tag-news","tag-peter-kyle","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}