Chris Heaton-Harris: new chief whip no stranger to controversy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : In 2017, when he was a junior whip under Theresa May, Heaton-Harris was accused of attempted McCarthyism when he wrote to the vice-chancellors of all English universities asking them to declare what they were teaching about Brexit, and to give a list of teachers' names.
56% : His letter asked for a copy of each university's syllabus and any online lectures on Brexit, with a series of university leaders calling the requests sinister and unprecedented.

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