The Section 28 petition response

Just got the email from the House of Commons petitions team. I had signed Sarah Drummond’s petition to demand an enquiry into the impacts of Section 28. It’s a disappointing result:-(
They wrote a long explanation about why the government feels an enquiry is not necessary. In broad terms it’s fairly sensible, but I think it misses what I thought I understood was Sarah’s central point, that Section 28 was not about the past, that the harms are on the rise again and happening now. That an enquiry would make this a formal, public debate, get the key issues and ideas back on the news.