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Lord Anderson of Ipswich (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 12 February 2026

Debate

Counter-Extremism Strategy

Contribution

I have one and a half sentences left. If our laws on online safety, public order, hate crime, counterterrorism, hostile state activity or proscription are insufficient, let us revisit, amend and supplement them. But the trick is to excise the tumours without undue harm to the healthy tissue of free speech, which requires a scalpel, not the suffocating blanket labelled “extremism”.

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