Reform UK politicians should be barred from speaking on campus, say 35% of students

In the survey, just 18% of the students supported all political parties being able to speak on campus. Photograph: Mark Waugh/Alamy

One-third of students think Reform UK politicians should be barred from speaking on university campuses, according to a survey of student attitudes towards free speech that organisers described as “contradictory” and confusing.

While 69% of students told the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) survey that universities should “never limit free speech”, similar numbers also supported speaking bans on specific political parties.