21-07-2025
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
JD Vance 'to visit Scotland' as VP follows Donald Trump
A major policing operation will be in place, with police witnesses not to be called for summary trials and help requested from the Northern Irish police service.
According to The Telegraph, vice-President Vance will also visit Scotland this summer.
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He is expected to fly to London in mid-August before spending time in the Costwolds and heading north of the border.
Mr Vance has claimed Scottish heritage, saying in his memoir that he is "a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart".
It's believed the claim goes back to Reverend John Vance who emigrated from Barnbarroch, Dumfries and Galloway, to Ulster in 1611.
However, doubt has been cast on this by David Vance, president of the Vance Family Association.
He said: "We know they (Vance's family) were from Ireland before the US, but there's no evidence they were from Scotland earlier.
"The short version is that although it is possible that JD Vance's surname origins are also originally from Scotland, we do not believe he descends directly from the John Vance who is popularly assumed by many genealogists to be the sole progenitor of all Irish Vances.'
President Trump has more direct Scottish ancestry, with his mother, Mary Trump (née MacLeod) emigrating to New York from Stornoway.
A Whitehall source told The Telegraph: "The ties run deep.
'Whatever any policy differences, the history, heritage and appeal of the United Kingdom are a huge draw to the current administration… unlike with their predecessors."
