“The reality is that attacks on free speech usually hurt the people with the least power. They do not control the institutions and therefore rely on their voices and the tools of persuasion and logic. “I know from experience that talking about issues like race, ethnicity or LGBT rights can get you in hot water, but as an MP I’m safer than a lot of people who are genuinely afraid of losing their jobs.” He will go on to say that more and more people are “awakening to the eternal truth that it is wrong and dangerous to restrict speech” and that it can lead to “bad outcomes for society and can marginalize the very groups we claim to want to protect ». Ms Badenoch spent the past two and a half years as Equalities Minister in the Leveling Up Department before stepping down from the role on July 6. Two days later, she announced her candidacy in a column in The Times newspaper, in which she took aim at Blair’s “cultural establishment” and identity politics, while pledging to return the party to a low-tax trajectory. In 2020, he gave an acclaimed speech on the trend of ‘critical race theory’ in schools which was voted speech of the year by readers of the Conservative Home website.
