Queen’s Speech confirms Govt pushing ahead on ‘all forms of extremism’
Plans for a Counter-Extremism Commission have been announced in the Queen’s Speech, but free speech campaigners called for the Government to pause its plans and consult widely.
The Speech did not mention the plans for an Equality Oath, or Ofsted entering Sunday schools and youth clubs. However, the Government has continued to advocate both these strands of its counter-extremism strategy.
Defend Free Speech, which includes The Christian Institute, the National Secular Society and Index on Censorship, cautioned that the new Commission will simply be a scapegoat for “when things go wrong”....