Web Bill slammed as 'watering down'

Michelle Donelan also argued the axed measures had been an 'anchor' holding the much-delayed Bill back.

THE Government has dropped measures to ban 'legal but harmful' web content, in what campaigners called a 'watering down' of the Online Safety Bill that is 'very hard to understand! Removing the restrictions marks a more 'common sense' approach as they could have led to an 'erosion of free speech, the Culture Secretary said.

The ditching of 'legal but harmful' measures marks a win for free speech proponents including Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch, who claimed they would 'legislate for hurt feelings, but it faces criticism from other corners of the Tory party.