With his views on eugenics, why does Toby Young still have a job in education? | Polly Toynbee
by Polly Toynbee from on (#3D0J7)
The new schools champion has done a Tim Farron - only this time the issue that makes a powerful man's position untenable is not gay sex
Are you free to think whatever you like? Of course you are. There are no thought police, though the paranoid right likes to imagine "politically correct" commissars are out to martyr them. But expressing outlandish or dangerous views while holding a public position may create a conflict, forcing you to choose.
Look at the very different cases of Tim Farron MP, the former Liberal Democrat leader and Toby Young, still hanging on to a powerful position as head of the New Schools Network (NSN).
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