People sit outside a cafe in the town of Charlbury, as U.S. Vice President JD Vance spends his holiday nearby, in Charlbury, Cotswolds, Britain, August 11, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Dean, a small hamlet in the Cotswolds — a rural area of Southeastern England — enacted tight security in response to a visit from a prominent U.S. politician: JD Vance. The American vice president planned to stay in Dean Manor, an 18th Century country house not far from a house that former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron owns in Oxfordshire.
According to Will Humphries, a reporter for The Times in the U.K., Dean residents feel like they're on lockdown because of Vance's visit.
"U.S. Secret Service officers, dressed down in cream chinos and pale blue t-shirts, and uniformed officers from Thames Valley Police, were stationed at every road and footpath entrance to Dean on Sunday, (August 11), checking the identity of residents trying to get in and out of their hamlet," Humphries reports. "American officials were overheard at one road block mimicking a British accent and asking each other about hoping to try 'a bacon butty' and a 'Sunday dinner' during their trip. One Secret Service member said to another: 'I didn’t know I'd need sunblock in the UK.'"
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Humphries adds, "Sniffer dogs were used to search vans coming through the roadblocks."
Cotswolds residents interviewed by The Times expressed their frustration.
Two women in their seventies said they were stooped by Vance's security detail.
One of them said, "I told the police, ‘We are two old ladies, we are hardly terrorists'…. The police officers were very nice; one had come from High Wycombe, and the other came from Marlow. We said, ‘You poor things, guarding this awful man.' It must be costing us a fortune. Another few thousand pounds down the pan."
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Another Cotswolds resident told The Times, "I've told some friends in America what's happening, and they hate him. They live in Pennsylvania, and they're lifelong Democrats. When I told them, they just sent me an emoji of some sort of horror. Anyway, I've got nothing against the guy. If he wants to have a holiday, that's fine. But what sort of holiday can you have when you've got thousands of security guys around you?"
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Read The Times' full article at this link.