Kemi Badenoch will on Monday take the free speech fight to Labour as she launches a commission to stop the Right being stifled.
Writing in Monday's Daily Mail, the Conservative leader warned that ‘offending someone has effectively been turned into a crime’ and said policing has become politicised.
She has vowed to fight to protect free speech, and her new policy task force – to be led by Toby Young – will review laws restricting freedom of expression.
The commission is expected to report back to Mrs Badenoch by the end of the year and will look at areas affected by free speech – such as universities, social media and broadcasting – and question whether the rules are necessary, fair and in line with British values.
Lord Young is set to meet campaigners, journalists, academics and ordinary people who have experience of how free speech is being stifled throughout the UK.
