Examination of Witness

Part of Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:29 pm on 7 September 2021.

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Thomas Simpson:

It provides the best means that we have got of addressing it. Whether it will succeed or not, I do not know. We have evidence—I gave you the example earlier of the Equalities Act. The test for the success of this Bill is not what happens in the six months afterwards—whether there are controversies, what happens afterwards. The test for success is in 10 years’ time, when it is more embedded.