Extract from remaining stages (Commons) of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill - June 13

Miriam Cates (Penistone and Stocksbridge) (Con):...We have heard today that over the past few years, there has been a growing and concerning trend to stifle free speech on UK university campuses. Since this Bill was published last year, we have seen: the attempt to shut down and harass the Israeli ambassador at Cambridge University; the vicious and, as we have heard, ultimately successful campaign to remove Professor Kathleen Stock from her post at Sussex; and, just last month, the efforts of an angry mob to silence my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education at Warwick University  It is no wonder that he has prioritised the return of the Bill...

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