Protesters vow to disrupt Vance's Cotswolds family holiday
The US vice-president is expected to travel to the UK with his family for a holiday among the picturesque villages and rolling hills of South West England in August.
Ahead of his visit, however, an anti-Donald Trump coalition of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, climate protesters and trade unions has told Mr Vance to expect protests against his trip.
Mr Vance and his family are expected to visit the UK shortly after the US president completes a five-day stay in Scotland.
The US president is due to fly to Scotland on Friday, where he will check up on his business interests and meet the Prime Minister in Aberdeen.
He will visit his Trump Turnberry golf club in Ayrshire on the west coast before opening a new course on his Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire, on the north-east coast.
The Stop Trump Coalition have said previously they will protest against Mr Trump's visit by hanging banners and flags along the roads and inscribing a huge message on a nearby beach that will be visible from the air.
Now, the coalition has issued a warning to Mr Vance that they expect further demonstrations to take place when he visits.
A Stop Trump Coalition spokesman said: 'We are meeting Trump with protests in Aberdeen and Edinburgh this month, and then in London and Windsor in September.
'JD Vance is every bit as unwelcome in the UK as Donald Trump.
'We remember how Vance cut short his ski trip in Vermont because he was so enraged by the sight of a few protesters.
'We are sure that, even in the Cotswolds, he will find the resistance waiting.'
In March, hundreds of protesters holding pro-Ukraine signs confronted Mr Vance in Waitsfield, Vermont, where he and his family were visiting for a ski holiday.
Protesters branded Mr Vance a 'national disgrace' with some telling him and his family to 'go ski in Russia'.
It was later reported that the family were forced to move to an undisclosed location from their planned ski resort because of the demonstrations.
Earlier this month, Mr Vance was met with hecklers and widespread demonstrations after he visited Disneyland in California.
Protesters gathered outside the nearby Grand Californian Hotel, where the vice-president and his family were staying, waving flags and chanting.
Other Disneyland visitors later complained that regular guests were experiencing delays and long lines because of the additional security in place and rides being shut down for the Vance family.
The vice-president, his wife Usha and their three young children are expected to join millions of American tourists in crossing the Atlantic to see the sights of London in mid-August.
They are then expected to rent a cottage in the Cotswolds before leaving to spend time in Scotland.
Mrs Vance has taken the lead in finding a cottage in the Cotswolds where they can unwind with Ewan, eight, five-year-old Vivek, and Mirabel, three.
Trump has previously been highly critical of protests targeting his properties in the UK and reacted angrily when vandals daubed pro-Palestinian graffiti on his Turnberry golf course
He raised the incident with Starmer and described the protesters as 'terrorists'.
Following Trump's election victory in November last year, a number of celebrities 'fled' the US and relocated to the Cotswolds.
Among them was US TV host Ellen DeGeneres, who moved to the UK from Montecito, California, with her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, following Trump's win.
Recently, Ms DeGeneres and her wife were pictured enjoying a drink in one of the Cotswolds' most famous pubs.
The couple were seen spending an evening at The Farmer's Dog in Burford, Oxfordshire, which is run and owned by Jeremy Clarkson.
Mr Clarkson bought the Oxfordshire pub for £1million this summer, and customers queued for four hours to get in when he opened its doors in August.
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