Nothing says sincere commitment to freedom of expression quite like organising a campaign to ban policemen from appearing at pride events and force churches to ordinate people whose views they consider to be unrepresentative of the church's teaching...

Also noteworthy that the UK has had "Malicious Communications" laws on the statute book since 1988 and actually jailed people for it, so the position that this is some new level of outrage perpetrated by the Woke Agenda because the person spoken to by police was a homophobe rather than a poppy burner isn't really one in favour of free speech per se...