A number of Saturday’s newspapers lead with comments made by US Vice President JD Vance during the Munich Security Conference on Friday.

The Daily Mail, external carries his warning that “Free Speech is in Retreat” in the UK – calling Vance’s address a “blistering speech” which “stunned European leaders and military chiefs” who had expected him to focus on how to end the war in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the Financial Times, external describes Vance’s approach as “confrontational” and says his claim – that European democracies faced a greater “threat from within” than from Russia – drew a “furious response” from European Union officials.

According to the Guardian, external, the US VP launched a “brutal ideological assault on Europe, accusing its leaders of suppressing free speech, failing to halt illegal immigration and running in fear from voters’ true beliefs”.

The Times, external describes Vance’s words as “sweeping polemic” and cites an unnamed government source who has told the paper that Vance came across as “crackers”.