Oxford University has ‘allowed political diversity to wither’
by Tim Sigsworth and Ewan Somerville, Telegraph:
Institute ‘unable to uphold freedom of expression’ after Vernal Scott’s post celebrating closure of Belgian Conservative conference.
Oxford dons have accused the university of allowing political diversity to “wither away” after its head of equality celebrated the Belgian police’s attempt to shut down a conservative conference.
Vernal Scott, who has led Oxford’s “equality and diversity unit” since October 2023, hailed the closure of the National Conservatism Conference on Tuesday in a since-deleted post on X, formerly Twitter.
Police entered and then blockaded the conference, at which Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman were speaking, to shut it down after a court order claimed the event could be homophobic, offend minorities or incite public disorder.
“I applaud the mayor and police of Brussels for their decision to close down this conference,” Mr Scott wrote online.
The court order, which was later reversed, was condemned by No 10 as “extremely disturbing” and by Mrs Braverman as an undermining of “free speech” by the “Brussels thought police”.
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