AC Grayling, who campaigns to reverse Brexit, said only two of his students had “come out” as Leave voters

One of Britain’s most prominent philosophers and Remainers has said that his Leave-voting students are too afraid to reveal their political views at lectures.

AC Grayling is founder and master of the New College of the Humanities in London, which has about 250 undergraduates and postgraduates.

Since he started campaigning for Britain to stay in the European Union in 2015 thousands of people have studied there. In that time only two have “come out” to him as Brexiteers, he said.

“We had interesting conversations,” Professor Grayling said. “We discussed their point of view, their reasons for doing it and it was instructive. I’m sure there are more but I suppose they keep quiet about it because they’re in a very pro-EU environment here.”

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