Member

Therefore, if the Minister is not content with this amendment, he has it in his own hands to deal with it. If he has dealt with it when we come back at Third Reading, we can no doubt make a judgment as to whether it is sufficient. We cannot run away from this any more. It is going on all the time, and in institutions in which huge amounts of taxpayers’ money are invested we are seeing people who have reached the stage where they feel uncomfortable, even on campus. These are places of learning; it is where there is a generation of people who will in the future run businesses and create wealth, and they are bombarded by this totally unacceptable propaganda. We always pride ourselves on free speech in this country and we have all been parts of protests over the years, but things have got particularly nasty. To simply assume that we can carry on as normal is no longer acceptable.