A police force that sends six officers to arrest a silently praying Christian woman, but lacks resources to stop our streets from flooding with violence, is not one that reflects the values of a Western democratic society.
If Suella Braverman wants to restore “common-sense policing”, she should start by overhauling the Public Order Act.
A bill was introduced in the 2021 Queen’s Speech that introduced a bold approach to restoring academic freedom and meaningful debate at universities. Why isn’t it yet in the Statute Book?
A woman has just been arrested not even for speaking, but for thinking, the wrong thoughts. And it is a policy that could be rolled out across the country.
Nobody is asking that the student union idealists be quiet. But if they are to hold pro-choice positions, they should be willing to debate them.
This is a chance for MPs to eschew ideological pressures and do the right thing. British women and their babies deserve far better than decriminalisation.