“It would have been horrendous for David Irving to get to speak in Britain,” league spokeswoman Debbie Jack said.
The debate was to address the question of whether there should be restrictions on the freedom of speech of extremists.
Irving was scheduled to argue against restrictions, while Richard Rampton, one of the lawyers who successfully defended Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt from Irving’s libel lawsuit last year, was to argue in favor.
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