Cancel culture is having a “chilling effect” on free speech, Baroness Claire Fox has warned.
The author and politician described the growing clampdown on dissenting voices as “censorious.”
Speaking to NTD’s Lee Hall on the “British Thought Leaders” programme, Fox told how she’s faced down attempts by critics to have her thrown off events and TV shows.
In March, the peer was uninvited from taking part in a student debate at Royal Holloway, University of London after accusations she was transphobic for reposting a joke by comedian Ricky Gervais.
She had been due to talk at the student event about the importance of debate, and was set to touch upon cancel culture….