Half of British university students believe that those with conservative views are reluctant to express them at their university

Research by the Policy Institute at King’s College London, based on two new surveys of almost 2,500 British university students and a survey carried out in 2019, found that around a third of UK students say free speech is threatened in their university, up from a quarter in 2019, and half of students believe that those with conservative views are reluctant to express them at their university, up from 37 per cent in 2019. 

Ronald Reagan called universities islands of totalitarianism in a sea of freedom.  This was true of America in the 1980s, where the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, but Britain after several Labour governments and 47 years in the European Economic Community and then the European Union is anything but a sea of freedom.