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Does Labour care about free speech on campus?

27 July 2024

1:17 AM

27 July 2024

1:17 AM

Universities fought tooth and nail against plans to impose fines if they failed to uphold freedom of speech. That proposal – contained in last year’s Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act – was one of the few things the Tory government could point to as a success. But under Labour the plan has been shelved.

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