The UK’s former Secretary of State told British lawmakers on Tuesday that free speech is under severe threat in the country’s universities from the cancel culture movement. “Today there’s a corrosive trend in our universities that aims to prevent anybody hearing ideas that groups disagree with or would be offended by,” said Conservative MP David Davis while introducing his Freedom of Speech (Universities) private members bill to the House of Commons. “Today the cancel culture movement think that it’s reasonable to obliterate the views of people they disagree with,” he said. He said that the primary reason the United Kingdom can be called a great nation is summed up in a single word—the word “freedom,” which he subdivided into several specific freedoms. These include, he said, “freedom of action, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom under the law.” But he said that among …