Leading charities see attacks on Runnymede Trust as attempts to silence dissent
When an equality thinktank with just eight full-time staff added its voice to criticism of the government’s recent race report, it probably didn’t expect to become a lightning rod for hate mail and threats. Nor find itself at the centre of a culture war between rightwing politicians and charities.
In what has been described as a full-scale campaign to “silence criticism and discredit any dissenting voices”, a group of Tory MPs from the Conservative Common Sense Group attacked the Runnymede Trust after it became one of the more vocal critics of the government’s controversial Sewell report.
