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Civil servants have been warned not to invite 'woke' speakers who attack government policies to Whitehall events, it was claimed today.
A Cabinet Office memo urges staff to carry out 'due diligence' on individuals before asking them to appear at internal functions.
The missive said the checks must be conducted to ensure 'impartiality', according to the Sunday Telegraph.
The move comes after a backlash at speakers critical of the Government being drafted in for Whitehall social or networking events.
Civil servants have been warned not to invite 'woke' speakers who attack government policies to Whitehall events
In one episode last month, a left-wing Cambridge academic was stopped from delivering a lecture at the Home Office after allegations emerged that she had made offensive remarks about Priti Patel.
Professor Priyamvada Gopal, 53, was invited to speak to government officials about her view that the department's policies are linked with colonial history.
But the academic, who is professor of post-colonial studies in the university's English faculty, said her invitation was cancelled at short notice.
One of her old tweets came to light in which she claimed Home Secretary Ms Patel held 'anti-black attitudes' typical of Indians who lived in East Africa.
The tweet said: 'Priti Patel is also a reminder that many Asians in British Africa had ferociously anti-black attitudes and were used by colonial administrations to keep black populations in their place. An attitude she brings to government.'
Although Ms Patel
