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As pressure mounted to weaken the bill, the Free Speech Union—a mass-membership UK organisation that had been campaigning for it—organised a letter in November 2022, signed by over fifty prominent UK academics, urging the government to stand firm. But on 7 December 2022, following intensive lobbying from university vice-chancellors and their representatives, the House of Lords voted to remove the statutory-tort clause completely.
Abhishek Saha, Quillette, 6th April 2025.
