Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak should both pledge to do more to protect free speech as part of their leadership pitch. How about promising to ditch ’Non-Crime Hate Incidents’?
In a sign of the anti-woke agenda breaking through in the race to pick the next PM, leading candidate Liz Truss pledged to ensure free speech does not have fewer protections online than offline. But is it enough?
Listen to a pilot of the new Weekly Sceptic podcast. The topics include Liz Truss’s pledge not to lockdown, the Lionesses’s victory and the ‘appalling abuse’ of BBC weathermen, e.g., telling them to ‘get a grip’.
According to a new poll for YouGov, a majority of Conservative voters would like the next prime minister to hit the pause button on Net Zero. It looks as though Liz Truss will do what they ask.
At a Conservative leadership hustings event tonight Liz Truss ruled out placing Britain in lockdown again if she was Prime Minister. "No I wouldn’t,“ she said, when asked if would ever authorise another one.
A contributor to the Daily Sceptic has devised a template email to send to the Conservative leadership candidates asking them whether they'd lock us down again in the event of another pandemic.
In a speech later today, Rishi Sunak will attack "woke nonsense" and defend "British freedoms". Please use the Free Speech Union's campaigning tool to email Sunak and Truss urging to them to do more to protect free speech.
Kemi Badenoch, who recently topped a Tory members' poll, has been knocked out of the race to be the next Prime Minister after the fourth round of voting. Liz Truss is now the most reliably anti-woke candidate remaining.
The Free Speech Union has created a new campaigning tool so Conservative members can write to the candidates in the leadership race, urging them to stand up for free speech. If you're a Tory member, please email them now.
