POLL OF THE DAY: Is Keir Starmer a threat to free speech? - YOUR VERDICT

The Prime Minister has called out large social media firms for their role in allowing inciteful content to be spread on their platforms - and is weighing up imposing obligations on said firms to crack down on "legal but harmful" material.

But the Clacton MP, speaking to the US's Fox News, said: "Nobody should use any social media platform to genuinely spread hate or incitement to violence, and that free speech rule I think all of us would support and agree with.

"But what we are allowed to do on social media, or should be allowed to do, is to speculate, is to ask questions, is to try and put facts out, to put facts out that wake up the rest of the community.

"When you're engaged in something like that, you can never, ever guarantee that what you say is 100 per cent true.

"Now, Starmer, by cracking down on that, poses, I think, the biggest threat to free speech we've seen in our history.

“If the parameters that are set are to say to every kid, if you read a post that questions net zero and global warming, it will be extreme content, and a lie, if you read a post that even dares to question levels of immigration, legal or illegal into Britain, that that’s extremist, then you start to set a narrative for a future generation that is fundamentally undemocratic.

"I am very worried that the instincts of a left-wing Labour Party are to use this crisis to take away our liberties and our free speech, and this is going to have to be fought."

A whopping 98 per cent of GB News members who voted in the poll believe Keir Starmer is a threat to free speech.

Just two per cent disagreed and don't think he is.