Vance has mixed work with leisure while in Britain, staying first with foreign minister David Lammy at the Chevening estate in Kent - where the two held a formal bilateral meeting after a spot of fishing - before moving on to the hamlet of Dean in Oxfordshire, in the picturesque Cotswolds.

JD Vance's fishing trip in England was technically illegal because British Foreign Secretary David Lammy did not have the required rod license. The Foreign Office said Lammy described the lapse as an "administrative error," that he had written to the British Environment Agency to notify them and that he had now purchased the relevant licenses.