When the vice-president of the United States took Sir Keir Starmer to task earlier this year for failing to uphold free speech, the Prime Minister was quick to hit back. “In relation to free speech in the UK, I’m very proud of our history there,” he said. “We’ve had free speech for a very long time, it will last a long time, and we are very proud of that.”
As the head of the Free Speech Union, I wish I was as sanguine as the Labour leader. Our membership has doubled in size since the last election, with our six-person case team having to contend with 25 new cases a week.
