A furious row erupted on GB News after Bangor University’s Politics and Debating Society blocked a Reform UK event, branding potential speakers “racist, sexist and homophobic”.
Political commentator Jack Anderton said he was “rudely rejected” after approaching the society as part of a national university tour.
“They told us we were hateful and not welcome on campus,” Anderton said, adding that he and Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin had sought to attend “in good faith” to debate students.
He accused the society of hypocrisy, saying it claimed to welcome opposing views while shutting out speakers from what he described as “the leading political party in Britain”.
However, Ben McLean from Turn Left Media pushed back, arguing the decision did not amount to a free speech issue.
He said refusing to host a speaker was not the same as silencing them, insisting there was a clear difference between freedom of expression and a right to a platform.
WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE