Vance has been holidaying in the nearby hamlet of Dean, close to Charlbury, where hundreds of local residents have staged protests and a “not welcome party”. One woman told the Guardian: “That’s not what we’re about. We don’t want anything to do with people like him.”

Staff at The Bull in Charlbury, near where the US vice-president is spending his summer holiday, are said to have refused to show up to work if Vance was allowed to book the pub.