The Government will crack down on “Harry Potter degrees” and university seminars about decolonisation and the patriarchy, the higher education minister has said.

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Andrea Jenkyns claimed UK universities were being hijacked by “politically-motivated campaigners” while failing to deliver basic skills.

Outlining her plans to enshrine “free speech” in universities, she claimed students were wrongly “being fed a diet of critical race theory, anti-British history and sociological Marxism”.

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