Pro-Brexit and right-wing academics feel forced to censor their political views, putting free speech at universities under threat, a report has said.
Campuses are increasingly governed by unwritten rules that mean lecturers are under pressure to muzzle unfashionable opinions for fear of being ostracised or passed over for promotion, the Policy Exchange think tank said.
A YouGov poll of 820 academics found that nearly a third — 32 per cent — of those who say their political views are “right” or “fairly right” have stopped openly airing opinions in teaching and research, compared with 13 per cent of those in the centre and on the left.
Among Brexit supporters, 27 per cent said they had refrained from publishing or airing views for “fear of consequences”
