POLL OF THE DAY: Is free speech under threat in Britain? YOUR VERDICT
WATCH NOW: Allison Pearson speaks out about how Britain’s police state hunted her down
GB NEWS
After journalist Allison Pearson was visited by police for a "non-crime" X post, GB News asked its members if free speech is under threat.
A staggering 99 per cent of GB News' 2,581 respondents declared free speech is under threat in Britain, with just one per cent believing it is not.
The poll comes after Pearson, 64, was visited by officers on Remembrance Sunday following a social media post that was deemed offensive last year.
In her first sit down TV interview, Pearson told GB News: "Because it was Remembrance Sunday I drew myself up and told them [the police officers] we are here today on a special day commemorating hundred of men your age who laid down their lives for the country so that it could be a free country and not live under the jackboot of tyranny.
"Here you are on Remembrance Sunday, coming to my house in something that I see to be against freedom."
Responding to GB News' live stream on X, Musk said: "This is insane. Make Orwell Fiction Again!"
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson also waded in on Pearson's "non-crime" incident.
He said: "This is appalling. How can Starmer’s Britain lecture other countries about free speech when an innocent journalist gets a knock on the door - for a tweet?
"Our police have their hands full of burglaries and violent crime. They are being forced to behave like a woke Securitate - and it has to stop."
Elon MuskREUTERSDuring her interview on GB News, Pearson detailed her next steps when Farage asked about whether she would meet with the Home Secretary.
She said: "I'm going to probably go in for an interview. The Free Speech Union, which is a brilliant organisation, is helping me, and they're giving me a solicitor.
"So if I have to go into the police station and have a voluntary interview. I'll go in and maybe then we'll be able to find out what I'm accused of, and then we'll see how it progresses."
Essex Police opened its investigation against the journalist under Section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986, relating to material posted on her X account last year and said it allegedly was "likely or intended to cause racial hatred".
Allison Pearson was visited by police GB NEWSAn Essex Police spokesman said: "The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed.
"An investigation is now being carried out under Section 17 of the Public Order Act."
However, Pearson complained about police prioritising social media post over other offences, including theft.
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