My right hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he not agree that much of the controversy surrounding this Bill comes from a conflation of physical safety with emotional and intellectual safety? Although students should have the right to be physically safe on campus, there is no right to feel safe and, as he rightly says, universities are the place where we should feel emotionally and intellectually challenged and, perhaps, unsafe at times.
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Miriam Cates
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 13 June 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill.
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