Free Speech Policy Pledges That Sunak and Truss Have Made in the Conservative Leadership Election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : And actually the majority of them didn't even vote for Brexit in the referendum," said Butcher, adding that he believed that nobody is saying that the Conservatives are a "sort of people's Populist Party."
49% : In December 2021, when Truss was Minister for Women and Equalities Truss, she affirmed the government's stance that free speech and religious liberty should be protected from a conversion therapy ban.
48% : But Butcher said that those who are interested in free speech warmed to Badenoch "because the old left-right divisions are not necessarily the ones that people divide on today and rightly so, as these are really important issues." Still in the background is the Online Safety Bill, which is currently on ice until a new prime minister is in place in the autumn, a move that won praise from free speech supporters.
44% : "After the collapse of communism, many breathed a sigh of relief and called it the end of history -- confident that freedom and democracy would inexorably go global under its own steam," she said.

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