The only holiday the Youngs had this summer was a week in Norfolk for the Hunstanton tennis tournament. I’m too hopeless to enter myself, but my friend Nell, who has a house nearby, organised a different competition that I was more suited to. It involved making an ‘elevator pitch’ for a policy that would fix broken Britain. What made it challenging was the panel of judges was chaired by Lord Butler, a former cabinet secretary who is also Nell’s dad. The problem I focused on, needless to say, was the free speech crisis.

My proposal was to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a Bill of Rights Act incorporating the first ten amendments of the US Constitution into UK law. Instead of the European Court of Human Rights, the ultimate guar

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