No 10 declines to comment on White House claim Europe facing ‘civilisational erasure’ due to migration, speech laws and EU<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n
Downing Street has defended Britain\u2019s record on freedom of speech \u2013 while declining to comment on a White House policy document saying Europe is at risk of \u201ccivilisational erasure\u201d.<\/p>\n
At the No 10 lobby briefing, the PM\u2019s spokesperson<\/strong> said that he would not comment on the national security strategy<\/a> published by the White House on Friday because it was as US document.<\/p>\n As Jon Henley<\/strong> reports, the document does not just relate to US policy because it says the American government should be \u201ccultivating resistance to Europe\u2019s current trajectory within European nations\u201d.<\/p>\n Referring to Europe as a whole, the document says that it does not spend enough on defence and that it suffers from economic stagnation. But it goes on:<\/p>\n\n