Veep on vacation Cotswolds braces for JD Vance's summer holiday

The narrow lanes and honeyed stone walls of the Gloucestershire market town of Stow-on-the-Wold are not the setting where one would expect to see an angry altercation - unless it was a standoff between Range Rovers for the last parking spot in the gridlocked market square.

- Esther Addley

This is a place of ancient doorways and expensive condiments, where the streets are dotted with teashops and vintage cars drift past with their roofs down and a plaque on the war memorial records the last time a battle was fought here, in 1646.

But could this almost parodically charming town, or another very like it, soon find itself at the heart of the angry US culture wars? According to reports, the US vice-president, JD Vance, will be holidaying in the Cotswolds with his family next month, and protesters are determined to let him know just how warm the welcome won't be in England's chocolate box countryside.

"JD Vance is every bit as unwelcome in the UK as Donald Trump," said the Stop Trump Coalition, which mobilises British opposition to the US president. "We are sure that, even in the Cotswolds, he will find the resistance waiting."

If so, it won't be a new experience for the veep. His wife, Usha, and their three young children had to abandon a skiing holiday in Vermont in March, after they were met by protesters with signs reading "Go ski in Russia". They were also jeered at in Disneyland after part of the park was closed off for their sole use.