A new report on this subject from The Policy Exchange:
https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Academic-freedom-in-the-UK...
I agree with the Guardian writer on this. It's ironic that to improve academic freedom they are seeing to encourage reporting issues that don't meet their rather narrow agenda.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/04/rightwing-academic-fr...
Impressively unrepresentative sample!