The Free Speech
We’ve identified our top five policy commitments for the new leader of the Conservative party. We’re reaching out to all the candidates to see where they stand on each of these issues and we’ll then give them a mark out of five according to their answers.
| Education | Create an enforcement mechanism to make sure children aren’t being politically indoctrinated in schools, stop schools dissembling when parents ask to see what their children are being taught, and insist that free speech is included in the list of British values schools are expected to teach. |
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| Policing | End the investigation and recording of Non-Crime Hate Incidents by the police and delete all those that are still sitting on people’s records. |
| Legislation | Take forward the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, ditch those clauses in the Online Safety Bill that pose a threat to free speech and make sure freedom of expression is pre-eminent in the new Bill of Rights so artists, novelists, poets, playwrights and comedians can speak truth to power without being cancelled. |
| Workers' Rights | Introduce stronger legal protection for workers’ rights so employees cannot be disciplined or sacked for refusing to take diversity training courses or declare their gender pronouns. |
| Equalities | Amend the Equality Act 2010 so it cannot be used to no-platform those who challenge fashionable orthodoxies, e.g., defining a woman as an ‘adult human female’ should not count as ‘harassment’. |
How do the candidates compare?
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| Candidate | Education | Policing | Legislation | Workers’ Rights | Equalities | Score out of 5 |
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Kemi Badenoch
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Rishi Sunak
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Liz Truss
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Tom Tugendhat
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Nadhim Zahawi
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Suella Braverman
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Grant Shapps
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Jeremy Hunt
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Penny Mordaunt
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Sajid Javid
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Sister Organisations
Related Organisations
- Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF)
- Article 19
- The Campaign for Free Speech
- Counterweight
- Fair Cop
- The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
- Free Speech Champions
- The Free Speech Club
- Heterodox Academy
- The Institute of Public Affairs
- The National Association of Scholars
- Scholars at Risk Network
- Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (Canada)
Contact the FSU
Before getting in touch please look at our Frequently Asked Questions, as that may answer the question you have. If you still want to get in touch, please use one of the email addresses below:
Help: If your right to free speech is being infringed or you are being penalised in some way for exercising your lawful right to free speech please email [email protected].
Technical support: [email protected]
Anything else: [email protected]
The Free Speech Union
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London W1W 7LT
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