Cancel culture and free speech experts worry that a government Bill designed to protect speakers at universities has been watered down.
The government has been accused of making concessions to universities over a new law it had drawn up to enable academics and students to take institutions to court for breaching free speech violations.
The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill is legislation to safeguard free speech at university campuses.
The proposed act of Parliament would impose requirements for universities and student unions to protect freedom of speech, tightening existing legislation to make the promotion of it a statutory duty.
Previously this meant that if universities failed to uphold free speech, they could be taken to court….