Over the course of the past two years, the Free Speech Union’s membership has ballooned from 14,000 to more than 45,000. This is a testament to the dire state of free speech in Starmer’s Britain, and another scathing epitaph for his political career. But our new prime minister could prove an even greater enemy of free speech than his predecessor. But once that bloke-ish charm wanes, and it will, we should expect to find him just as hostile towards free speech and its advocates as Sir Keir. Nandy told followers the platform, while ‘originally designed for free speech’, now ‘favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate’ and that she did not ‘want to support it’.