The Conservative Party chairman has revealed there is a "difference of opinion" among the Coalition over guidance to be issued to universities for controversial speakers being allowed on campus.
In an interview on Sky's Murnaghan programme, Grant Shapps said radical preachers who incite violence should be barred from universities.
He said: "Vince Cable doesn't want to do what the Conservatives want to do which is to make sure that on campus we do not have radical preachers saying things which incite violence which ultimately can lead to the radicalisation of young people.
"We have seen these three girls go off to Syria. We have seen Jihadi John. We don't think that sort of preaching should happen in our universities.
"Conservatives just have a simple view that people in Vince Cable's constituency of Twickenham or around the country deserve that protection and that means that we have to put proper, decent, tough rules in place which don't ban free speech but do prevent people from preaching death."
Mr Cable is reportedly keen on trying to water down the guidance.
Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy, said the definition of extremism was "very nebulous" and said there was a danger clamping down on controversial speakers could force them underground.
He told Sky News: "Many people said we should ban the BNP from universities and platforms. We (Lib Dems) said no because we want to expose their arguments.
"What the Conservatives seem to be wanting to do is to introduce, against British values of free speech, a new type of rule which says that the state will know what extremism is.
"One person's subjectivity is another person's objectivity and therefore the phrase 'extremism' is very very nebulous, it's unclear, and there's a danger that the Conservatives will clamp down on free speech and that will be giving in to the terrorists and we're not prepared to do that."
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Gallery: Jihadi John's University Academic Record
Mohammed Emwazi, aka Jihadi John, studied a computing course at university. Sky News has exclusively obtained his student record
His file shows mostly middling academic grades for his course modules. He graduated with a lower second (2.2) degree
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